public function sendResponse($status = 200, $body = '', $content_type = 'text/html') { $status_header = 'HTTP/1.1 ' . $status . ' ' . restAPI::getStatusCodeMessage($status); // set the status header($status_header); // set the content type header('Content-type: ' . $content_type); // pages with body are easy if ($body != '') { // send the body echo $body; exit; } else { // we need to create the body if none is passed // create some body messages $message = ''; // this is purely optional, but makes the pages a little nicer to read // for your users. Since you won't likely send a lot of different status codes, // this also shouldn't be too ponderous to maintain switch ($status) { case 401: $message = 'You must be authorized to view this page.'; break; case 404: $message = 'The requested URL ' . $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] . ' was not found.'; break; case 500: $message = 'The server encountered an error processing your request.'; break; case 501: $message = 'The requested method is not implemented.'; break; } // servers don't always have a signature turned on (this is an apache directive "ServerSignature On") //$signature = ($_SERVER['SERVER_SIGNATURE'] == '') ? $_SERVER['SERVER_SOFTWARE'] . ' Server at ' . $_SERVER['SERVER_NAME'] . ' Port ' . $_SERVER['SERVER_PORT'] : $_SERVER['SERVER_SIGNATURE']; $signature = ''; // this should be templatized in a real-world solution $body = '<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd"> <html> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <title>' . $status . ' ' . restAPI::getStatusCodeMessage($status) . '</title> </head> <body> <h1>' . restAPI::getStatusCodeMessage($status) . '</h1> <p>' . $message . '</p> <hr /> <address>' . $signature . '</address> </body> </html>'; echo $body; exit; } }