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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.

steven s · #32 12-13-2005, 04:24 PM

After recieving +100 error messages I thought about changing that page too.
A quick search came across this thread. Can't wait to install it.
I had no idea where that html page was.
Thanks.

futuredood · #33 06-29-2006, 04:40 PM

installed but how in the world do you test this?

Protoman · #34 06-29-2006, 07:34 PM

turn off mySQL via your console I suppose, that or make a PHP page that causes a mysql error

Rickie3 · #35 07-01-2006, 12:09 AM

hahahahaha I love it suits me to a T my members call me sex fingers LOL

PoetJA-1975 · #36 09-28-2006, 10:08 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by futuredood

installed but how in the world do you test this?

LOL - I was thinking the same thing - How in the HELL can I possibly test this without breaking something :P

At anyrate - hits install!

Thanx for the sharing!

Jacquii.

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