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[lorband at optonline.net]

Your reply is perfectly logical but I am trying not to redesign alot of code. The PHP code is currently designed to return  a string or nothing depending on the action taken. If a fatal error occurs, nothing is returned which unfortunately is also a valid response. 
P.S. set_error_handler will not handle fatal errors (E_ERROR). 
   
 "The following error types cannot be handled with a user defined function: E_ERROR, E_PARSE, E_CORE_ERROR, E_CORE_WARNING, E_COMPILE_ERROR, E_COMPILE_WARNING, and most of E_STRICT raised in the file where set_error_handler() is called." 
Thank everyone for the help,
Lori

----- Original Message -----
From: Michael Sims 
Date: Tuesday, February 17, 2009 10:54 am
Subject: Re: [nycphp-talk] Can I set the response code if a PHP Fatal error occurs?
To: NYPHP Talk 

> On Tuesday 17 February 2009, lorband at optonline.net wrote:
> > I am using AJAX to submit a PHP request. If a PHP Fatal error 
> occurs> when running the php program, the http response code is 
> 200 and it
> > appears the program ran successfully. Is there a way for php 
> to return a
> > 500 http response code when a fatal error occurs so 
> myjava_script that is
> > processing the response can alert the user that an error has 
> occurred?> Try/catch won't capture fatal errors for me to set 
> the header. Thank you,
> > Lori
> 
> Your Javascript code should look like this:
> 
> a) did I get the right data back from the server? If so, report 
> success.b) Otherwise, report failure to the user.
> 
> It doesn't matter what went wrong on the server side, if you're 
> just 
> reporting to the user. MAke your PHP script return something 
> (the word 
> "good" for example), have your javascript look for that word, if 
> it didn't 
> get that word, report to the user "Something seems to be wrong".
> 
> Behind the scenes it might matter to you what went wrong with 
> the PHP 
> script, but it doesn't matter to the user at all. You shouldn't 
> be testing 
> the http status code as a way to figure out if things were 
> successful - test 
> some data output by the PHP script, where that data is only sent 
> if 
> everything went correctly.
> 
> Michael Sims
> 
> 
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