[Resolved] command-line php: parse errors to STDERR?

[robgwin]

Anybody know why command-line php scripts (I'm using the cgi version on RH Linux) send errors to STDOUT instead of STDERR? Is this on purpose? Can I somehow make php errors go to STDERR instead?

Reason: I have a php script running on cron. I want to send the normal results to a logfile, but get emailed if there's an error processing the php, such as a parse error. My cron knows to send STDOUT to the logfile and STDERR to an email. But it's all coming out on STDOUT!

Any ideas? Is this a bug or intentional behavior?

thanks!

[drew010]

maybe in the cli php file you can define your own error handler and simply write to stderr instead of stdout like php does.

#!/usr/bin/php -q

//...your code here

set_error_handler("myError");

function myError($errno, $errmsg, $filename, $linenum, $vars) {
  fwrite(STDERR, "In $filename on line $linenum the following error occured:\n$errmsg\n\n");
}

[bradgrafelman]

Alternatively, you could read in the error by fopen'ing 'php://stdout' perhaps...