Re: PHP and MySQL question...

Fraser MacKenzie wrote: > > Folks, I am using PHP and mysql for a site, and when I do a mysql_connect > (for most pages) if it succeeds I want to continue onwards. If it fails > then I want to locate to a 'Site Maintenance in Progress page'. However, > the problem seems to be that as soon as the connect fails the following > error message is pumped out to stdout: > > 'Warning: MySQL Connection Failed: Access denied for > user: 'yyyyy@xxxxxx.com' (Using password: YES) in /pub/inc/db.inc on line > 49 > > Now, as soon as this is sent to stdout, I can no longer use: > > Header ("Location: > http://www.xxxxxx.com/maintenance.html"); > > Is there any way to disable the outputing of the warning message from > mysql? Is this something I should be sending to the mysql mailing list? > > Thanks in advance for your time and trouble.... Proceed the mysql_connect() call with an '@'. This will disable the output of the mysql_connect() function so you can then use the header() function to redirect. Hope this helps. -- ev ---------------------------- Evan Klinger evan@php.net AIM evan715