[FX.php List] Catch FileMaker Server before it dies?

[Denis Somar]

Is that script effectively running a FindAll step?

On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 2:12 PM, Andrew Denman <adenman at tmea.org> wrote:

> Here's my error checking block that handles FileMaker errors and FX.php
> errors (when FileMaker server isn't responding or something goes wrong with
> the XML), based off instructions Chris provided in the past.
>
> // Find them!
> $Data = $Setup->FMFind();
>
> // See if there's an error
> if(FX::isError($Data) || $Data['errorCode'] != 0 ){
>        // Display for FX.php error
>        if(FX::isError($Data)){
>                $error = "The server may be down.<br>";
>                $error .= $Data->getMessage();
>        // Display for FileMaker error
>        }else{
>                require_once('\FX\FMErrors.php');
>                //$errorsList is error array name
>                $error = $errorsList[$Data['errorCode']];
>        }
> }else{
>        // Everything OK, process data
> } // END FM error
>
>
> Andrew Denman
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: fx.php_list-bounces at mail.iviking.org [mailto:
> fx.php_list-bounces at mail.iviking.org] On Behalf Of Bob Patin
> Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2012 4:12 PM
> To: FX.php Discussion List
> Subject: Re: [FX.php List] Catch FileMaker Server before it dies?
>
> I have a little script I use that will send me an error message if a web
> server's WPE isn't responding; what I do is to use a test database that has
> a few records; if the WPE doesn't respond in a reasonable amount of
> seconds, I get an SMS and an email warning me that there was an issue. I
> use a robot machine (that does other robot duties too) to run this script
> every 3 minutes.
>
> You could write some sort of script to do a simple find; if it doesn't
> return an error-free response, you could direct users to an error page.
> However, if the WPE geeks completely, you're not going to get a FileMaker
> error back, and perhaps Chris could tell you what sort of IF statement to
> write to catch that situation.
>
> Bob Patin
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>
> On May 24, 2012, at 2:26 PM, Denis Somar wrote:
>
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I'm about to go into beta testing with my first production-worthy FMP
> web project.  I'm not sure of the load to expect (nothing huge initially)
> in terms of users, but I'm wondering if I can catch catch automatically
> when the site is under a heavy load so I know that it happens.  Are there
> any PHP calls that can be used to die gracefully (or not) and just say the
> database server isn't working/isn't responding.
> >
>
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