error for mysql

hey all have a feature that i'd like to add into scripts that querry a mysql table. i want to have it display a message like - cannot access database at this time. please retry later. or something like that... i have a snippet...and am wondering how to integrate it with my existing code..... function error ($err) {

    echo "<h1>$err</h1><hr>";

} script in here..

        $fp = @fopen($file,"r");
        if(!$fp) {
            print_error("Cannot open file: $file");
            break;
        }

How would i integrate that with this - $titleresult= mysql_query("SELECT * from validtables WHERE dbtables = '$data'",$db); // sql query to get title and message info from db while ($myrow = @mysql_fetch_array($titleresult)) { // get the data from the query and put it into vars $title = $myrow["title"]; $message1 = $myrow["message1"]; $message2 = $myrow["message2"]; $message3 = $myrow["message3"]; } any ideas? ~kurth Kurth Bemis - Network/Systems Administrator, USAExpress.net/Ozone Computer kurth@usaexpress.net http://www.usaexpress.net/kurth ICQ - 6624050 Call Sign - N1TYW PGP key available - http://www.usaexpress.net/kurth/pgp Fight Weak Encryption! Donate your wasted CPU cycles to Distributed.net (http://www.distributed.net)