PHP timeout message?

[acook]

I have a page that queries a database.  Well, often the DB goes down and the script returns the standard PHP timeout error:

 

Fatal error: Maximum execution time of 60 seconds exceeded in blah on line 70

 

 

Is there any way to write a custom message into the page that will display something like:

 

I'm sorry, the database is down right now.

[chigley]

<?php

$conn = mysql_connect("localhost", "user", "pass");

if(!$conn) {
die("I'm sorry, the database is down right now.");
}

// rest of code here

?>

 

Use something like that?