Can warnnings be disabled?

[Anon]

Can warrnings in Apache/PHP/MySql somehow be disabled? ( i.e. I do not want to see them on the screen...)

Can you help?

Thank you

[[deleted]]

yes they can (RTFM: http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.error-reporting.php)

!!But this is a very bad idea unless you have proper error_checking!!

[dannys]

Or you could just add an '@' to the beggining of each command you want to be silent.

[[deleted]]

Yup, you can add the @ in front of every statement you want to be silent.

And then one of them starts acting up, and you can spend an eternity removing @ signs from all the functions to see which one is having a problem.

Error checking is the answer, the @ sign is evil.

[dannys]

Well I don't just randonly bung @ signs all over the place. I generally use them where i'm checking for errors anyway - for example on MySQL queries i'd use something like:

if ($result=@($query,$link))
{
// do query-related stuff
}
else
{
// do graceful error handling stuff
}

I do similar stuff with file handling.

[[deleted]]

Glad to hear this:

"I generally use them where i'm checking for errors anyway"

I cannot stress that part enough, so I'll do it again:

"where i'm checking for errors anyway"

In that case, the @ only surpresses 'messy' error messages, but the script still knows that something went wrong.

If you juse use the @ without checking for errors, you will never find out why the script failed.

Always use error checking!!

[smarlowe]

Also, if your PHP script segfaults the webserver (at least in apache) you won't get anything either, because the data in the buffer heading towards the client will get eaten by the crashing apache child.

In this instance, you'll not only need decent error checking, but you'll likely have to add lots of 'print checkpoint1';flush();' to your code to figure out what's killing it.

But Vincent is right in the sense that if you're tossing @ signs in your code, you HAVE to be checking for errors, because users just hate a page that isn't working (or worse, partly working) but throwing no errors.

Better to leave a generic system error message peaking through than to have no error message at all.

[dannys]

Did you not read my post? 'I generally use them where i'm checking for errors anyway'

[[deleted]]

Danny,
I think Scott's reply was meant as a general comment to everybody rather than a critique to you.

[smarlowe]

Dude, I wasn't even addressing you. I was talking about troubleshooting in general. I found no fault in your posts.

[dannys]

Ok, sorry - guess I shouldn't post replies until at least 20mins after i've woken 🙂