something other than die() or exit();

[Anon]

I have a PHP script (using templates) where I include a bottom and top half of a page, sorta like this:

<?php
include("/home/blah/include/top.php");
?>

<somehtmlandphpstuff>This is the main content</somehtmlandphpstuff>

<?
include("/home/blah/include/bottom.php");
?>

My question was:

If I have some code (like MySQL stuff) in the "content" section, how can I get the script to hault after an error without using die() or exit()? The reason I ask is because after using die() and/or exit() it completely haults the entire script, including the include()'s I used for the top.php and bottom.php template files. And it just skips right over them. Is there a way I can get it to only hault a certain part of the script?

I hope you understood all that cause I sure didn't 🙂

[mithril]

Andrew,

The easiest way I've found for doing this is to write all the main content stuff in functions, save them in a separate file, then include that file in the header section. Once this is done, all the main content can be called in a series of conditional statement based on the return of the called functions. For example, if your attempt to connect to the mySQL backend fails, make the function returns false else it returns true (or some relevant value). For example:

<?php

function mysqlConnect($host,$user,$pass) {

$link = @mysql_connect($host,$user,$pass);

if (is_resource($link)) {

    return $link;
}

else {

    return false;
}   

}

$return = mysqlConnect($host,$user,$pass);

if ($return) {

// do the rest of the script here
}

else {

print "Error!!  Unable to establish a connection to mySQL\n";

}

?>

Hope this helps!!

Cheers,

Geoff A. Virgo