Error Handling

[QRator]

Hi All

Before I get blasted for not searching the forum on this topic first, i am not actually quite sure what to search for, so here is my problem...

I want to create my own error notice from an error that PHP produces. For example, I get this error...

Warning: mail(): Failed to connect to mailserver at "locallsdhfkjshd" port 25, verify your "SMTP" and "smtp_port" setting in php.ini or use ini_set() in C:\wwroot\MyLexisNexis\bookstore\error_test.php on line 4

But i want it to display as follows:

The following error has occurred:
Warning: mail(): Failed to connect to mailserver at "locallsdhfkjshd" port 25, verify your "SMTP" and "smtp_port" setting in php.ini or use ini_set() in C:\wwroot\MyLexisNexis\bookstore\error_test.php on line 4

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So what I really wanna do is put the error text into a string.

Is this possible?

Is there a PHP function to do this?

[Weedpacket]

Step 1: Put @ in front of the offending call.
Step 2: See if mail() returned false, and if it did, print your string.

There's a common idiom for this:

@mail(...) or croak(...);

where croak() is your function to write a more user-friendly error message.

There's also [man]trigger_error[/man] and other error-handling functions (see that page for a listing) that lets you write your own error messages, and write your own error handlers.