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[dandono]

hi, i am making an error handler using IIS 6 and PHP (obviously). when i triger an error iis is ment to return /errors/error.php?404 but it does not and returns /errors/error.php?404?404;http://domain:80/rnddir/
how can i get it to not send that extra data?
thanks, dandono

[visualAd]

Would you care to elaborate?

[dandono]

ok. i have made an error handler for my website running iis. how it works it that iis goes to the same page on every error like for http 404 it would give the user /errors/error.php?404 but insted of doing that it gives the user /errors/error.php?404?404;http://path.com/pathwotiswrong/

[Pc_Madness]

Then the link your using is wrong perhaps? :s

[dandono]

ok? i am using this code as my error handler:

if ($err == "404")
{
$h1 = 'Header/Title';
$body = 'Body Line one. Describes the Error encountered.
<br>Body Line two. Tells the user what they can do.';
} 

what it is ment to send for that to work is ?err=404 but insted it is getting ?err=404?404;blah.thing
how can i get it to not either send the ?404;blah.thing or get my code to be able to read that. can any one help?

[Pc_Madness]

?err=404?404;blah.thing

Would indicate that thers an error in your code. Check whichever file it is that sends you to the page ?err=404. Sounds like your missing a "

I think. :\

[visualAd]

The variable $_GET['err'] will contain "404?404;blah.thing" so all you need to do is extract the protion of the stirng which contains the error code, anything before the ?:

$code = substr($_GET['err'], 0, strpos($_GET['err'], '?'));

[penagate]

ok? i am using this code as my error handler:

if ($err == "404")
{
$h1 = 'Header/Title';
$body = 'Body Line one. Describes the Error encountered.
<br>Body Line two. Tells the user what they can do.';
} 

what it is ment to send for that to work is ?err=404 but insted it is getting ?err=404?404;blah.thing
how can i get it to not either send the ?404;blah.thing or get my code to be able to read that. can any one help?

In that case you are sending it wrongly, what are you using to direct to the error page?

I use the .htaccess page to set my error URL, as follows

ErrorDocument 404 http://mydomain.com/error.php?id=404

Then in error.php just check the value of $_GET['id']. If you it that way nothing extra should get sent.

[visualAd]

This is IIS though, it addsthe info automagically. - so don't put anything in yourself, just the name of the error document.

[penagate]

Oh IIS. Missed that

[dandono]

thanks for the replys and thanks visualad. if i changed iis so insted of the error doc being /errors/error.php?err=404 to /errors/error.php and insted of using $code = substr($_GET['err'], 0, strpos($_GET['err'], '?')); i used $code = substr($_GET['err'], 0, strpos($_GET['err'], ';')); would that work?

[CornedBee]

Apparently IIS automatically appends ?<code>;<document> to whatever error document you set. Therefore you can do this:

list($code, $url) = explode(';', $_SERVER['argv'][1]);

It might be [0], I'm not sure.

You need to change your IIS config so that it only points to /errors/error.php, though, not /errors/error.php?err=404.