In PHP < 5.4 is there any way to get a status response code you just set?

Question

I know in php 5.4 there is a new function http_response_code(), but in prior versions how would you get a response code you just set?

Similar to Is there any way to get the current HTTP response code from PHP?

I have this need:

 //sometime earlier
 header('HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found');


//sometime later, detect if error was set
$status = some_magic_way_to_find_status();

Does anyone have a way in php 5.3 or below to do this?

Answer 1

EDIT: As @Esailija wrote: Notice that you need to rewrite all your header calls to use this function for this to work

Found this code in the manual, http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.http-response-code.php#107261

<?php

    if (!function_exists('http_response_code')) {
        function http_response_code($code = NULL) {

            if ($code !== NULL) {

                switch ($code) {
                    case 100: $text = 'Continue'; break;
                    case 101: $text = 'Switching Protocols'; break;
                    case 200: $text = 'OK'; break;
                    case 201: $text = 'Created'; break;
                    case 202: $text = 'Accepted'; break;
                    case 203: $text = 'Non-Authoritative Information'; break;
                    case 204: $text = 'No Content'; break;
                    case 205: $text = 'Reset Content'; break;
                    case 206: $text = 'Partial Content'; break;
                    case 300: $text = 'Multiple Choices'; break;
                    case 301: $text = 'Moved Permanently'; break;
                    case 302: $text = 'Moved Temporarily'; break;
                    case 303: $text = 'See Other'; break;
                    case 304: $text = 'Not Modified'; break;
                    case 305: $text = 'Use Proxy'; break;
                    case 400: $text = 'Bad Request'; break;
                    case 401: $text = 'Unauthorized'; break;
                    case 402: $text = 'Payment Required'; break;
                    case 403: $text = 'Forbidden'; break;
                    case 404: $text = 'Not Found'; break;
                    case 405: $text = 'Method Not Allowed'; break;
                    case 406: $text = 'Not Acceptable'; break;
                    case 407: $text = 'Proxy Authentication Required'; break;
                    case 408: $text = 'Request Time-out'; break;
                    case 409: $text = 'Conflict'; break;
                    case 410: $text = 'Gone'; break;
                    case 411: $text = 'Length Required'; break;
                    case 412: $text = 'Precondition Failed'; break;
                    case 413: $text = 'Request Entity Too Large'; break;
                    case 414: $text = 'Request-URI Too Large'; break;
                    case 415: $text = 'Unsupported Media Type'; break;
                    case 500: $text = 'Internal Server Error'; break;
                    case 501: $text = 'Not Implemented'; break;
                    case 502: $text = 'Bad Gateway'; break;
                    case 503: $text = 'Service Unavailable'; break;
                    case 504: $text = 'Gateway Time-out'; break;
                    case 505: $text = 'HTTP Version not supported'; break;
                    default:
                        exit('Unknown http status code "' . htmlentities($code) . '"');
                    break;
                }

                $protocol = (isset($_SERVER['SERVER_PROTOCOL']) ? $_SERVER['SERVER_PROTOCOL'] : 'HTTP/1.0');

                header($protocol . ' ' . $code . ' ' . $text);

                $GLOBALS['http_response_code'] = $code;

            } else {

                $code = (isset($GLOBALS['http_response_code']) ? $GLOBALS['http_response_code'] : 200);

            }

            return $code;

        }
    }

?>

Answer 2

I don't think it's possible.

You could wrap the header() function:

function my_status_header($setHeader=null) {
    static $theHeader=null;
    //if we already set it, then return what we set before (can't set it twice anyway)
    if($theHeader) {return $theHeader;}
    $theHeader = $setHeader;
    header('HTTP/1.1 '.$setHeader);
    return $setHeader;
}

Or, of course, you could always upgrade to PHP5.4.