I noticed that if you come accross a error on the forums it says a custom saying, i was wondering what the code (in asp) is for that, does anyone know??
Usually the text is just in the file somewhere. Open up the file with a proper editor and use a 'find' to located the text you want to change and change it.
that didnt answer my question. I want to know what the command is to wright a custom error, not the default error. example: Like when you install these forums and you forget to edit the config.asp file and you start up the fourms and the setup.asp file has a custom error, not the "file unkown" error.
There are different ways to do it. One way would be to include On Error Resume Next toward the top of your code. Then, anywhere you thought an error might occur you could place code along the lines of:
if err.number > 0 then response.write("An error occurred: " & err.number & " - " & err.description) end if
If you knew the exact error number you could code it so that your own description displayed instead of err.description.
There are two types of errors: Those catched by the forum, or not catched (so the server gives the error). Ideally all (ok, most) errors must be catched by the software. If they are catched by the forum, you can find the string in the forum .asp files and edit it to output whatever your like. In v4, as all string info is taken out into a file, this will be easier.
For the second case you have two choices. You either try to catch more errors like Nikkol mentions, or you edit the server's error files (with IIS5 you can also change them from the Internet - that's if the host allowes that).
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Posted - 27 February 2002 : 17:00:59
