FORCE page to load?

bookbuyer2000

On my main server, I have an html page (begins with <html> and ends with </html>. After the last </html> part, I have a short bit of PHP code which connects to a mysql database on another server.

Yesterday, that other server was, "down," for a while (i.e. mysql wouldn't work). During the downtime, my main page wouldn't load! Visitors would see a blank page... because my php code at the bottom was trying to connect to the down site.

I have tried everything I could think of. I even tried "Set_time_out()" ... but that won't work because my shared server's host has safe mode on. My php mysql code starts with:

$link = mysql_connect etc.
if (!$link) { die(); }

...but that doesn't work either.

So... how do I "force" my html page to appear to my visitors regardless of whether php is having any luck w/ the mysql connection???

Thank you!!

sheephat

if(connetion successful load page)else(loadpage) ??maybe??

bradgrafelman

You could try calling [man]flush/man before the SQL code to force PHP to output the HTML up to that point.

bookbuyer2000

Let's say I want the browser to display the word, "hello," before the, "sleep(60)" code. Is there a way to make this work?

<?php
echo "<html><body>hello</body></html>";
flush();
sleep(60);
?>

NogDog

It will work in some situations, but may not work in situations where the web server's output buffering system ignores the flush request and continues to wait for more data before flushing its buffer.