[Sussex] PHP Help - Error Processing

[Gareth Ablett]

 From: Steve Dobson [mailto:steve at dobson.org]
 Subject: [Sussex] PHP Help - Error Processing
> 
> Hi All
> 
> A little help on the best way to do some error handling.
> 
> I've implemented a user account system on my LAMP (Linux, Apache,
> MySQL, and PHP) server.  The user information includes a number
> of limits - I can code those no problem.  But how best to process
> the blocking of a user should a limit be passed?
> 
> I could just code up the PHP to generated a "Access Denied" page
> but I don't like that.  I would rather bounce the browser to
> an PHP generated error page.
> 
> I tried the following:
> 
>   if ($allowAccess) {
>      generatePage()
>   } else {
>      header("HTTP/1.1 403 Forbidden");
>   }
> 
> This generates a black page, and not a server generated error page
> like I expected.  I even tried "HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found" with the
> same results.
> 
> Okay PHP experts, can you tell me what I'm doing wrong?
> 

It would be easier to create a custom page and use 

header("Location: error.php");


The other thing is have you tried 1.0 instead of 1.1 it would depend on
what apache server version you are running.

Gareth Ablett
Systems Developer

ITP Services Ltd.
http://www.itpserve.co.uk/

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