Re: supernoob strikes again

The 404 page is also inserted into the template, or at least that's the idea...index.html?id=404 is the error page. ?id=1 is the main page, other pages are numbered accordingly. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Justin Gruenberg" <justin@ice.kewlio.net> To: "Dan Bowkley" <dan@dibcomputers.com> Cc: <php-db@lists.php.net> Sent: Saturday, May 08, 2004 11:05 PM Subject: Re: [PHP-DB] supernoob strikes again > Dan Bowkley wrote: > > >Yeah, I'm back... > > > >I'm revamping my own site, finally...going for the same sort of dynamic system I was using for my last creation. Currently, I have index.php returning lots of different pages from a mysql database; what I'd like to do is have a somewhat more elegant solution for spitting back a 404 page. > > > > > > I'm not entirely sure if I understand your problem, but I can try. It's > a bit late. > > What you need is to test to see if 0 rows are returned. Do this before > any HTML is outputted. You can use header("HTTP/1.0 404 Not Found") to > tell the browser that the page wasn't found. You want to stop any > output after that, too. If you use Apache, you can use a custom error > document to give a pretty error page. > > See > http://us4.php.net/manual/en/function.header.php > http://httpd.apache.org/docs/mod/core.html#errordocument > > > >