Emailing PHP error messages

[stephen]

Is it possible on a shared hosting service to set up PHP error handling to forward the error to an email when one is generated?

ex: If somebody is browsing the site and causes an error in php can that error/warning be forwarded to an email?

[sarahk]

you can set up pages (read scripts) to be displayed for 404, 500 errors etc. Therefore as part of loading an email could be sent. Don't know how much info it would be able to send. Alternatively, the user could press the send to admin button after adding their comments.

[stephen]

I was thinking more like PHP errors and warnings. Not 404 errors.

Lets say a script dies or too many database connections or variable undefined etc. The user still gets the right page but with script errors. It doesn't happen that often but I would like to know when it does and if its fixable. I don't have access to teh PHP log files so I was just curious if its possible to setup in the htaccess file or in php to forward the errors to an email as well.

[dalecosp]

This is possible, and even a good idea. You can have PHP mail you, or, less sexy but slightly simpler, just write it in a flat file somewhere.

Check out error_reporting(), error_log(), and die(). I believe you could fairly easily use either of the last two in conjuction with mail() to get the desired effect.

HTH,