Custom Error Pages

Hi,

i started PHP with a simple small script to catch server errors. First we need to edit (or create) a .htaccess file in our wwwroot. Fill it with the following

Code:

# Customized error messages.
ErrorDocument 404 /error/index.php #change the path to your needs

This will intruct the webserver to call our index.php when an error 404 occours.

Now lets code our index.php

Code

GeSHi (php):
<?php
$TPL_FILE = "error.tpl";
 
// Get the status 404,403,500... ?
$err = $_SERVER['REDIRECT_STATUS'];
 
// for debugging reasons uncomment this
// echo phpinfo();
 
$handle = fopen($TPL_FILE, "r");
$tpl = fread($handle, filesize($TPL_FILE));
fclose($handle);
 
// Depending on the error, save some errormessages
switch ($err) {
	case '404':
		$errshort = "error 404: file not found!";
		$message = "The requested file could not found on this server!";
		break;
	case '403';
		$errshort = "error 403: forbidden!";
		$message = "Access denied - you are not allowed to access this site!";
		break;
	case '500';
		$errshort = "error 500: internal server error!";
		$message = "The requested file could not processed by its preprocessor!";
		break;
	default:
		break;
}
 
// Now replace the above saved messages with its placeholders in the template
  $tpl = str_replace("%MESSAGE%",$message,$tpl);
  $tpl = str_replace("%ERRSHORT%",$errshort,$tpl);
 
// Send a correct header to the browser
  header('STATUS: {$err}');
 
	// Output of the template
	echo $tpl;
?>
Created by GeSHI 1.0.7.20

Just create a normal HTML file called error.tpl and use the two placeholders for a shortmessage and a long one.

That's it

Save it and try http://yourdomain/site_does_not_exist and see it works...