Photopost Feature on vB

[Prince]

First of all I am not a programmer, just a technical professional, i.e. network admin. I run a large vBuletin board on a dedicated Linux server (7 years old) and I am capable of editing PHP code, but not writing anything from scratch...here is my issue:

I have a problem with some missing attachments...Is there a way to put a if/then or else in the PHP code so that when the attachment is missing I can return something other than this error:

Warning: fopen(/home/admin/attachments/2/5283.attach) [function.fopen]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /attachment.php on line 203

That is what you get when you click the attachment link in a post where the actual file is missing. I would just like to have it give a message like: this attachment is no long available, or something like that on a standard vB page so it does not look like the board is messed up.

Thank for anyone that can/will help me!

[galen]

I'm not familiar with the way vbulletin displays attachments but you could try something like this..

if (@fopen(FILE))
//do something
else
//couldnt open file do somethine else

@ supresses the error

[Prince]

thanks for the reply, here is the code starting on line 203 in attachment.php where that error starts:

if (!($fp = fopen($attachpath, 'rb')))
		{
			exit;
		}
	}
	else if (!($fp = @fopen($attachpath, 'rb')))
	{
		$filedata = base64_decode('R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAMDAwAAAACH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAICRAEAOw==');
		$filesize = strlen($filedata);
		header('Expires: Mon, 26 Jul 1997 05:00:00 GMT');             // Date in the past
		header('Last-Modified: ' . gmdate('D, d M Y H:i:s') . ' GMT'); // always modified
		header('Cache-Control: no-cache, must-revalidate');           // HTTP/1.1
		header('Pragma: no-cache');                                   // HTTP/1.0
		header("Content-disposition: inline; filename=clear.gif");
		header('Content-transfer-encoding: binary');
		header("Content-Length: $filesize");
		header('Content-type: image/gif');
		echo $filedata;
		exit;
	}
}

do you know where I would put the else statement?

[galen]

maybe something like this...

if (!($fp = @fopen($attachpath, 'rb')))
		{
			exit;
		}
	}
	else if (!($fp = @fopen($attachpath, 'rb')))
	{
		$filedata = base64_decode('R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAMDAwAAAACH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAICRAEAOw==');
		$filesize = strlen($filedata);
		header('Expires: Mon, 26 Jul 1997 05:00:00 GMT');             // Date in the past
		header('Last-Modified: ' . gmdate('D, d M Y H:i:s') . ' GMT'); // always modified
		header('Cache-Control: no-cache, must-revalidate');           // HTTP/1.1
		header('Pragma: no-cache');                                   // HTTP/1.0
		header("Content-disposition: inline; filename=clear.gif");
		header('Content-transfer-encoding: binary');
		header("Content-Length: $filesize");
		header('Content-type: image/gif');
		echo $filedata;
		exit;
	}
}
else {
   echo 'invalid attachment';
}

[Prince]

no, that did not work, plus it would need to call up a vB error page.