Re: Error exits

>Is it possible to declare a function to handle error exits in a more >graceful manner? Indeed there is. Just define your function and then replace die() with it. For example function passAway($arg) // a little more graceful than saying die { echo "<HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY>$arg</BODY></HTML>"; } and then: mysql_connect(blah, blah) || passAway('No! I shall avenge thine death, Ishmael'); > > >On a related note, do the sleep functions consume a lot of processor time, >or is it very little? > >Where I'm going with this, I have a user login page where I'd like to add a >delay after an unsuccessful attempt. >The key being that you don't know if the attempt was successful or not >until the response shows up. >If I can make a hacker's task take longer, then I have a better chance of >preventing his access. > > >It's interesting that in PHP you are often concerned with how much load you >are creating on the server, but I've never seen any mechanism to measure >that load. >-- >www.SpamWhack.com A pre-emptive strike against spam >Where's dave? >http://www.findu.com/cgi-bin/find.cgi?kc6ete-9 > >My transistor sings >with unintended parasitic >the smoke escapes > >By Jeff Stout > > >-- >PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) >To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net >For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net >To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net > > Send FREE Greetings for Father's Day--or any day! Click here: http://www.whowhere.lycos.com/redirects/fathers_day.rdct