[wp-hackers] Personalizing db down WordPress errors

[Peter Westwood]

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Chetan Kunte wrote:
> I came across this yesterday:
> 
> http://bitworking.org/news/224/One-of-these-things-is-not-like-the-other
> 
> On self-hosted sites, this is a familiar sight, and it is a bit
> obvious to site owners. But not so for visitors, particularly when
> they see a WordPress error message on screen [as seen in the link
> above].
> 
> Personalizing this "database-down" error message using the active
> Wordpress theme would be a better idea [and should be in the core].
> What do you'all think?

If the db is down then you don't know what the active theme is ( or for
that matter any other of the options values).

The best that can be done is providing a single plugin-in mechanism for
replacing the page e.g. is a file in wp-content called db-error.php
exists then include that rather than use the normal error output handler.

westi
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Peter Westwood
http://blog.ftwr.co.uk
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