Creating a 'Page not found'

[wemustdesign]

I am using the code below for my webpage. When no or non existant querystring is passed the user is directed to the homepage. 

 

I want to change this so that if a user goes uses an invalid query string (?page=oldcontent) they are directed to a 'not found page'. Can this be done with the way I hae set this up?

 

switch ($page) {

case 'about':
include 'about.php';
break;

case 'contact':
include 'contact.php';
break;


default:
include 'homepage.php';
}

[Rifts]

http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=custom+404

[Maq]

You should be doing this through your web server (most likely Apache).

[desjardins2010]

if i understand correctly you simply want to send them to a certain page if their query is not found?

[BlueSkyIS]

this is what i do:

 

if ($invalid_request) {
     header($_SERVER["SERVER_PROTOCOL"]." 404 Not Found");
     header("Status: 404 Not Found");
     header("location: 404.html");
     exit;
}

 

where 404.html is the page you want to send the user to...

[wemustdesign]

But non of this would work with a switch statement though? If the page is not found it goes to the default 'homepage.php' in the switch statement.

[BlueSkyIS]

make homepage case '' (no page), then default to

switch ($page) {

case 'about':
include 'about.php';
break;

case 'contact':
include 'contact.php';
break;

case '':
include 'homepage.php';
break;
default:
     header($_SERVER["SERVER_PROTOCOL"]." 404 Not Found");
     header("Status: 404 Not Found");
     header("location: 404.html");
     exit;
}

 

 

[wemustdesign]

That worked a treat, thanks for taking the time!