question about detecting 404 page...

[da_marek]

hello! i have some kind of link redirector and i have piece of code that looks like this:

if ($action == go) {
$sql = mysql_query("UPDATE links SET hits='$hits'+1 WHERE id='$id'");
header("Location: http://" . $selected_link . "");
}

now i wonder if i can detect somehow if '404 error' is displayed and if it is then redirect user to other page?

[planetsim]

Theres no way with php. You maybe able to make some sort of function with javascript.

[Mordecai]

Well, the best you could do is open a connection from your PHP file and if that returns a 404, then print out a different one, but you'd have to do that before you redirect the person.

[Norman_Graham]

I've perhaps misunderstood the question, but you could do this with an .htaccess file, couldn't you?

Norman

[da_marek]

yes of course! if totally forgot about .htaccess 🙂 thanks!