Throwing a custom 503 exception in CakePHP 2

Question

I need to give a 503 Service Unavailable HTTP header.

Normally I use these for 404 and 500 codes

throw new NotFoundException();
         


        

Answer 1

The Exceptions page in the Cake 2.0 book is worth a read.

Here's my short test:

// in bootstrap.php
require(APP . 'Lib' . DS . 'MyExceptions.php');


// in /Lib/MyExceptions.php
class ServiceUnavailableException extends CakeException {

    protected $_messageTemplate = 'Test';
}

// in controller
throw new ServiceUnavailableException('Service unavailable', 503);

Answer 2

http://api22.cakephp.org/class/cake-response#method-CakeResponsestatusCode

Will allow you to set a status code.