Display include file if.

[JimDarr]

I am using an inclue file on my layout.php page. 
I'd like to ignore the include file if the DB connection therein fails.
How should I do this?

[maxxd]

It sounds like you're saying that the DB connection is in the include file, but you'd like to not include the include file if the DB connection in the include file fails?

You can't not include a file after you've included it, and you'll have to include it to see if the connection is successful. What's the actual issue you're dealing with?

[JimDarr]

Yea that's it in a nutshell! 
I guess I'll need to think of another approach. 
I was hoping to return null or something from include if it fails and in layout file do something like:

  if( response not null ) display response
  else carry on with layout.php

Not a great explanation on my part, newibe as if its not clear!

[maxxd]

You can do exactly that; you just need to do some error checking and handling.