Best way to fix image that is not there.

I am working on a script that copies thumbnails onto my site. The problem is, for some entrys in the database, the thumbnail will not copy onto my site for some reason leaving an ugly image with a red x in it.

Is there a simple way to stop this? By switching out the dead url, with a "no image" thumbnail url?

Thanks In Advance!

Oh, by the way, I am using PHP.

One site work on has something similar where a default image is used if no image is found - here's the code:

Code:

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if (empty($image_out)) {
$result = db_query("select image, image_path, image_type from $sql_tbl[thumbnail] where id='$id'");
        if (db_num_rows($result))
                list($image, $image_path, $image_type) = db_fetch_row($result);
        else {
                header("Content-type: image/gif");
                func_readfile($default_image, true);
        exit;
}

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I can't help you any further as I haven't got much of a clue with php :p

You could use the PHP function file_exists($filename) to check if the thumbnail file exists on your server and if not display the default image.
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