interesting error format

[farzal]

I recently started playing with php in cgi mode, and one interesting/annoying thing is that the error messages generated are imbedded in html. For example, this is part of an error mesg I am getting:

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<b>Warning</b>: Missing argument 10 for main()
in <b>parser.php</b> on line <b>58</b><br>
<br>
<b>Warning</b>: 0 is not a Sybase result index in <b>parser.php</b> on line <b>103</b><br>

<br>

Php was configured first as cgi, and then as apache module. I guess they both are sharing the same php.ini file. The first line of php code is: #!/home/wwwuser/php-4.0.6/bin/php -q

Its not really much of a problem, but if its easy to fix (i.e. get error mesg w/o html tags) then please post the solution.

Thanks,
Farzal

[saltwater]

I don't get the problem..
errormessages are always embedded within html in PHP..

[farzal]

well, if you are running an executable (perl, shell, unix tools) at command-line in unix environment, the output (stdout, stderr) is Always pure text and not html. It is reasonable to expect that if php is run as a cgi, then error mesgs would be pure text and not embedded with html. And when php is run on the webserver, then error mesgs could be in html/text.