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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..

)

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.

Dan · #2 10-05-2005, 09:56 PM

nice one

I'll be using it

monstergamer · #3 10-05-2005, 10:07 PM

i like this alot, you broke it!

Allan · #4 10-05-2005, 10:24 PM

lol great job

Andreas · #5 10-05-2005, 10:30 PM

IMHO it doesn't make too much sense to use $vboptions[bbtitle]

Protoman · #6 10-05-2005, 10:34 PM

I just left that in there because it was in my original file. I just wanted to get people thinking by releasing this. You're free to make up your own or whatever

dieselpowered · #7 10-05-2005, 10:45 PM

HAHAHA I think I may use this...thanks!

Boofo · #8 10-05-2005, 10:49 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by xtremeoff-road

HAHAHA I think I may use this...thanks!

PM me what you come up with. I have an idea it will be a doozy.

jesus likes pie · #9 10-05-2005, 11:35 PM

ahahaha thanks vBCorolla. It is funnyness!

DS MrSinister · #10 10-05-2005, 11:42 PM

lmao nice job. :chinese: