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Hey everyone!
I’m building a webapp in PHP that uses a MySql DB. What I want to do is for example when someone tries to access to a page, but the DB throws an error, to display a HTML (or redirect) page with the HTTP code 500. Something like the “fail whale” in Twitter.
Is that possible?
You could use the die function in PHP to do this like so.
That will attempt to connect to your database and if it fails will require another file, you could also create a function that redirects users and stick that inside the die() function and simply redirect them to another page, either way that’s how you would send users away upon an error with the connection.