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Better looking database error screen · **Released**: 10-05-2005

I thought the database error screen was ugly so I decided to make something more visually appealing (not much!) than the original screen.

Step 1)
Upload the 2 gif's to your includes directory (you can move them wherever you want if you edit the code)

Step 2)
Update the below template so the images are their full URL paths
(ie.. http://site.com/forum/images/blah.gif)

Step 3)
replace the contents of includes/database_error_page.html with:

Code:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html>
<head>
	<title>$vboptions[bbtitle] Database Error</title>
	<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" />
	<style type="text/css">
	<!--
	blockquote { margin-top: 75px; }
	p { font: 11px tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; }
	-->
	</style>
</head>
<body>
<table align="center" width="70%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" bgcolor="#E7E7f7">
  <tr bgcolor="#395D94">
    <td colspan="5"><div align="center"><strong><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" color="#FFFFFF">$vboptions[bbtitle] Error</font></strong></div></td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td width="10" rowspan="3">&nbsp;</td>
    <td width="100" bgcolor="#F7F7FF"><div align="center"><img src="includes/signOops.gif" width="48" height="49" alt="Oops!" /></div></td>
    <td colspan="2" bgcolor="#F7F7FF">

    <blockquote>
			<blockquote>
				<p><strong>There seems to have been a problem with the $vboptions[bbtitle] database.</strong><br />
					Please try again by clicking the <a href="#" onclick="window.location = window.location;">Refresh</a> button in your web browser.</p>
				<p>An E-Mail has been dispatched to our <a href="mailto:$technicalemail">Technical Staff</a>, whom you can also contact if the problem persists.</p>
				<p>We apologise for any inconvenience.</p>

				$message

			</blockquote>
	</blockquote>

    </td>
    <td width="10" rowspan="3">&nbsp;</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td colspan="3" bgcolor="#F7F7FF"> <div align="right"><img src="includes/pointlaugh.gif" width="58" height="23" alt="funny" /></div>
      <div align="right"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><strong>You
        broke it!</strong></font></div></td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td colspan="3">&nbsp;</td>
  </tr>
</table>

</body>
</html>

There you have it! A better looking error message when things go wrong.
You can customize the images, error message, and colors to your liking.

Protoman · #12 10-06-2005, 12:49 AM

zip updated. make sure you use the full image paths on your forum or you will have broken images depending where the error is generated.

Acers · #13 10-06-2005, 01:22 AM

lol me think i will use it also :P grt hack

jugo · #14 10-06-2005, 01:50 AM

AWESOME...Thanks...fits perfectly with my site...lol

COBRAws · #15 10-06-2005, 03:36 AM

you broke it hahaha

thanks! i was planning to update it myself and came across this! =D

Alien · #16 10-06-2005, 05:00 AM

Hey. Thanks for this!

Installed, and unfortunately working.

lol...

[high]* Alien walks off to fix something.[/high]

buro9 · #17 10-06-2005, 08:20 AM

Love it, using it.

However... a question... your screenshot kinda shows that $vboptions aren't getting through to the end page. If the password was wrong or something daft like that, you wouldn't have $vboptions.

It's probably best to advise people to hardcode their forum info and email into that error page and not rely on something that you might not have... in fact probably won't have... it is an error page afterall

Oh, and I remove $message from mine after accidentally leaking my database password to the web!

Cyricx · #18 10-06-2005, 11:57 AM

Hahah this is hilarious

Koopa · #19 10-06-2005, 05:06 PM

I'll be using this, thanks

MentaL · #20 10-06-2005, 05:14 PM

love it

monstergamer · #21 10-06-2005, 05:23 PM

when i think about this, i think this should be HOTM LOL

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