Gert, to prevent PHP to output any error messages, you can prefix the expression with @, i.e. $db = @mysql_connect( $host, $user, $password) or die ('Sorry, server is down!');
Greetings, Herb ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gert Mellak" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, May 09, 2002 4:00 PM Subject: [PHP] error-catching > Hi! > > When I open a database connection and i. e. the db-server is down, > I get a very long, long error message telling me that the server is down. > > What I want to do is just echo a text, i. e. "DB-Server down" and leave out > the error message. > > Does anyone have an idea how to manage this? -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php