how to catch the errors and warnings of PHP to build a log file

sgalmeida

Greetings

How can I "catch" the errors and warnings of PHP and MySQL when somethig goes wrong, so the user don't see those messages on browser and I can create a log file with those message, or send email with the errors?

Thank ou very much

Sérgio

weekender

read up on [man]error_reporting[/man] and [man]set_error_handler[/man]

Sera

<?php # Script 8.0 - config.inc

//This script sets the error reporting for the site and logging for the site.

//No error message will be sent to the web browser.
error_reporting (0); //Production level

//Log a message to a text file when a problem occurs.
$message = 'An error occured in script ' FILE . ' on line ' . LINE . "\n";
error_log ($message, 3, 'errors.txt');

?>

there are 4 types of error logs:
0 - The message is logged using the system's default method.
1 - The message is sent by email to the destination addess.
2 - The message is sent to a remote debugger (for example, another server). This option was available in version 3 of PHP and is not included in version 4.
3 - The message is recorded in a text file (as show in the example above).

source: PHP & MySQL For Dynamic Web Sites, Larry Ullman

weekender

good code, but if you use set_error_handler you can set a function to do this automatically every time an error is trapped.

also, when posting code on the board, use the [ php ] tags (above) to highlight the code.

Moonglobe

um, why not just trun off display_errors on php.ini and turn on log_errors? that's kinda the simplest method 😉