[wp-testers] Suggestion for a future release, maybe?

[Philip M. Hofer (Frumph)]

http://www.google.com/#hl=en&source=hp&q=wordpress+db-error.php&aq=f&aqi=g1&aql=&oq=&gs_rfai=&fp=45835207582d5ee7

wordpress already has a db-error.php file you can add to wordpress as a 
customizable splash page.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Foolish Visions" <shelly at foolishvisions.com>
To: <wp-testers at lists.automattic.com>
Sent: Wednesday, June 23, 2010 7:06 AM
Subject: [wp-testers] Suggestion for a future release, maybe?


> Hey all,
>
> I'm new to doing this, so please bear with me. :)
>
> I'm one of those people who can mess with PHP enough to be scary.  I can 
> make things work, but they probably don't work in the *best* manner 
> possible.  That's why I generally have a lot of ideas for WordPress, but 
> am pretty terrified of contributing (except some advice on the forums, 
> occasionally), because I'm afraid if I submit something, I'll bring the 
> whole system crashing down.  It'll be the WordPress Apocalypse or 
> something, and the survivors will come to eat my brain.
>
> But this, I felt was worthy enough to at least run by you all.
>
> So I belong to another list of web developers - not a lot of them really 
> know WordPress, but they are finally getting into it.  One of them posed a 
> question this morning, and it's actually a common problem I've seen.  It's 
> not WordPress' *fault*, but what I suggested to her might allow WordPress 
> to *help* - I think it's an idea for consideration, anyway.
>
> Her issue was that her host had some server fixin' going on, and broke the 
> connection to the database.  It's intermittently connecting, so the site 
> is doing this "Here's my pretty WP site!" to "OMG! I'm down in flames!" 
> dance every few minutes.  So she was wondering if there was a way to 
> simply check if the connection was fine - if so, move on to WordPress, and 
> if not, redirect to a "safety" folder in the site that would display some 
> HTML (so the site wouldn't suffer from all kinds of headache-inducing 
> activity).
>
> I suggested adding the following to her WordPress index.php file (the WP 
> site is at the root), just after the call to require the 
> wp-blog-header.php file:
>
> // grab the login info from the wp-config.php file and check connection
> $link = mysql_connect(DB_HOST, DB_USER, DB_PASSWORD);
>   if (!$link) {
>   // if no connection,  redirect to HTML backup folder
>    header('Location: http://www.whateversite.com/backup/);
>   }
>   mysql_close($link);
>
> Anyway, a couple of people chimed up and said it might be worth letting 
> *you* all know about this to see if it was worthy of making it part of 
> core someday.  Or some kind of optional thing if people want to have it. 
> I dunno.
>
> Like I said, I'm not an expert on the core end of WordPress, and servers 
> not connecting to the DB aren't really WordPress' fault, (and there's 
> probably better ways of accomplishing this) but it seems like it would be 
> a really useful thing to offer.  You all can take it or leave it.  (Just 
> be gentle - it's my first time!) :)
>
> ~Shelly
>
>
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