That function sends the 404

pr0gr4mm3r — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 01:22:45 +0000

That function sends the 404 message in the page HTTP headers, not to be confused with your header template if you have one.

My header() function can go anywhere in your code as long as you haven't sent anything to the browser yet. If there is no way to call the header() statement before anything is printed, you may want to look into output buffering.

Yes, I know that, My problem

NickD — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 10:24:59 +0000

Yes, I know that,
My problem is that the header is included in all pages, with just one line which specifys the content for a server error (404) (code shown above), It therefore looks like its going to be quite complicated to achieve as I cant just 404 the main header because it will return a not found header for the entire site.

Headers usually go at the top

Renegade — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 21:52:00 +0000

Headers usually go at the top of the file and have to be declared before any output.

You can read more about it on the header function manual page:
http://nz2.php.net/manual/en/function.header.php

Want me to post the whole

NickD — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 17:57:26 +0000

Want me to post the whole header file?

Hi programmer, How is the

NickD — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 17:46:07 +0000

Hi programmer,

How is the above integrated into

$error404 = '<p style="font-size:15px;font-weight:bold;">Error 404 - page does not exist</p><p>Contact the <a href="mailto:'.$row_site_control['mailto'].'">systems administrator</a> to report this</p>';

so that the 404 server header only affects the 404 page?

This code should work for

pr0gr4mm3r — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 16:45:56 +0000

This code should work for you:

<?php
    header("HTTP/1.0 404 Not Found");
?>