server error

[mbbout]

my server is down and now my site shows:
Warning mysql_num_rows(): supplied argument is not a valid MySQL result resource in ....../var/www/html/poll.php on line 7

is there a way of letting know there is an error without showing all this info?

[trooper]

Try this

if(mysql_connect(connection_parameters))
{
  put your db select statement here
}else{
   die ("Unfortunately there is an error with the system - .........");
}

Then if the server is down (i.e you cannot connect to the db server the messge is shown instead of all the horrible code in your first post

HTH

GM