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Posted by Alex Chow
Alex Chow
4,521 Points

Customizing the 404 page and others

Hello,

I've created a contact form for my personal site using a tutorial form the treehouse blog site: http://blog.teamtreehouse.com/create-ajax-contact-form. The contact form calls on the 404 error page when the information isn’t fully filled in, the 200 page when it is successfully sent, and 500 page when there is an error sending the information. Everything works fine but I was curious to know if I could customize these pages to match my site. I’ve tried searching different databases but I haven’t found anything yet.

Thank you for the help.

1 Answer

Nick Ocampo
Nick Ocampo
15,661 Points
Nick Ocampo
Nick Ocampo
15,661 Points

Yes, you can. You should have a 404.html page that works just like any ol' html page.

Alex Chow
Alex Chow
4,521 Points

Okay, so if I create this separate 404.html page and customize it with css, how would I call it from mailer.php file? In that file, there is the following line: 

    if ( empty($name) OR empty($phone) OR empty($message) OR !filter_var($email, FILTER_VALIDATE_EMAIL)) {
        http_response_code(404);
        echo "Oops! There was a problem with your submission. Please complete the form and try again.";
        exit;
    }