Friendlier styled “Error establishing a database connection” error message

  • ollie-rattue

    (@ollie-rattue)


    14 years, 5 months ago

    Hey,

    I have always disliked the default unstyled “Error establishing a database connection” error message, which occurs if your db settings are incorrect or your db is offline/unreachable.

    A simple solution is to run it through the existing wordpress errror handling function wp_die() to give it some simple styling. The change would be as follows (bzr diff output):

    +++ wp-includes/functions.php	2009-11-12 12:21:30 +0000
@@ -2570,23 +2570,7 @@
 		wp_die($wpdb->error);

 	// Otherwise, be terse.
-	status_header( 500 );
-	nocache_headers();
-	header( 'Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8' );
-?>
-<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
-<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" <?php if ( function_exists( 'language_attributes' ) ) language_attributes(); ?>>
-<head>
-<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
-	<title>Database Error</title>
-
-</head>
-<body>
-	<h1>Error establishing a database connection</h1>
-</body>
-</html>
-<?php
-	die();
+	wp_die("<h1>Error establishing a database connection</h1><p></p>");
 }

 /**

    Default error message screenshot:
    http://img442.imageshack.us/img442/1049/wordpressdefaultdberror.png

    Styled error message screenshot:
    http://img30.imageshack.us/img30/6115/wordpressstyleddberror.png

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