[RESOLVED] trap errors

[JimCook]

I am trying to trap errors as I hate the big long error messages that are printed over the screen and want to have more control of them.

This is my current code and I am trying to trap and then control the errors

set_error_handler('error_trapper');

function error_trapper($errno, $errstr, $errfile, $errline)
{
  $errmsg = "$errno: $errstr at file $errfile, line $errline\n";
}



....
exit("There seems to be an error check $errmsg ");

But $errmsg is aways blank

[NogDog]

The scope of $errmsg is local to the function. You could add it to the $GLOBALS array:

set_error_handler('error_trapper');

function error_trapper($errno, $errstr, $errfile, $errline)
{
  $GLOBALS['errmsg'] = "$errno: $errstr at file $errfile, line $errline\n";
}



....
exit("There seems to be an error check {$GLOBALS['errmsg']} "); 

[JimCook]

Thank you NogDog will learn from it and try and add it to my code