[TYPO3-dev] Fail-safe mechanism for database connectivity problem

[Dmitry Dulepov]

Hi!

(I answered to Dan privately, now posting similar thing here).

Dan Frost wrote:
> We built a system recently using PHP5's exceptions and set_error_handler
> so that you never see a database error or even a minor PHP error.
> 
> The first part is to catch all nasty PHP errors.
> 
> set_error_handler('evErrorHandle');
> 
> function evErrorHandle(...) {
>   // do what you want with the error here
> }
> 
> Then you wrap the entire index.php in:
> 
> try {
>   // normal index.php
> } catch (e) {
>   // show a pretty fail-over page here
> }
> 
> This is actually in a library which we will publish in the next few days
> or so...

The problem is that it requires PHP5 while typo3 still should work with 
PHP4.

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