Force a 500 server error response to a requesting application..??

[angelleye]

This should be real simple I just don't know how to do it.  I'm using PayPal IPN to process order data.  IPN is setup to automatically re-try the IPN if doesn't receive a 200 OK response back from the IPN script.  In my solution, though, I'm actually storing any MySQL errors and notifying the site owner so the script actually does successfully complete and send a 200 OK back to PayPal, therefore, the IPN is not re-tried.

 

I'd like to send a 500 (or anything other than 200) back to PayPal when this happens, but of course, the script still needs to run successfully.  Is there a way I can use header() or anything to force a specific response code back?  This way if it's simply a matter of MySQL timing out (which tends to happen on shared servers sometimes) PayPal's system will re-try and I won't have to enter it myself.

 

Any information on this would be greatly appreciated.  Thanks!

[andrewgauger]

Try:

 

<?php header('x', TRUE, 500);?>

 

http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.header.php#93870