RE: Error trapping, on scripts that don't exist

thanks to Mahmoud for trying to help, but the php error trapping functions rely on the engine being able to auto-prepend the error trapping script. I tried a solution like this ... <?php if (!file_exists($PATH_TRANSLATED)) { include("$DOCUMENT_ROOT/error.html"); exit; } ?> but it doesn't prepend to scripts that don't exist. I did some diagnostics (e.g. replacing $PATH_TRANSLATED with a hard coded non-existant file name) to confirm it was working for files that do exist. Any ideas on how to get around this? Tim Ward Senior Systems Engineer Please refer to the following disclaimer in respect of this message: http://www.stivesdirect.com/e-mail-disclaimer.html > -----Original Message----- > From: Mahmoud Abu-Wardeh [SMTP:mahmoud@infoscience.ltd.uk] > Sent: 03 September 2001 18:01 > To: tim.ward@stivesdirect.com > Subject: Re: Error trapping > > Try writing a custom error handler. Chech out > http://www.zend.com/zend/spotlight/error.php for a good article > on the > subject. Pay particular attention to the bit at the end about output > buffering since I assume that what you would want to do is send a redirect > header to the browser if the script fails to work. > > "Tim Ward" <tim.ward@stivesdirect.com> wrote > > I've gone an annoying problem. On our site I've trapped "file does not > > exist" errors at Apache level to send out my own error screen with a > company > > logo, link to home page and a mailto link, but this doesn't work for any > > request for a page that would be parsed by php if it existed. In this > case > a > > valid html page (containing the php error) is returned. The problem > seems > to > > be that as far as Apache is concerned there isn't an error. I haven't > found > > anything in php that allows me to trap errors like this. Error reporting > > levels aren't helpful as I still need the error trapped. > > > > I'm sure I'm not the first person who has come across this, and I'm > hoping > > someone out there has found a way around it. > > > > I'm running PHP 4.0.0, Apache 1.3 on NT (yes I know, but our network > manager > > has promised me a linux box) > > > > Tim Ward > > Senior Systems Engineer > > > > Please refer to the following disclaimer in respect of this message: > > http://www.stivesdirect.com/e-mail-disclaimer.html > > > > >