Disable Php Error Text

[flashisland]

Hey everyone,

 

Is there an easy way to disable PHP error text? I don't want to disable error reporting, just the error text. I'm afraid that it might expose script information that I don't want them to have.

 

Thanks!

[TCH-Bruce]

You can edit your PHP script and remove what ever is being echoed when an error occurs.

[nortk]

What about putting error_reporting(0); in your code, and then writing errors to a log?

[flashisland]

TCH-Bruce: I'm not talking about script that echos an error, I'm talking about in case of a fatal php error or warning.

 

Yea I tried error_reporting(0) but that turns all error reporting off (obviously) so I'll never know that an error occurred. From the PHP manual it looks like there is a setting called "display_errors" which seems to be what I want. Anyone know how to get this turned off? It's simple on my own servers but for shared hosting I'm not sure how to do it.

[nortk]

Will this be a production site? The PHP documentation suggests that display_errors should not be used in production sites. Why not log all errors to a file? Won't that tell YOU about the errors that are occurring, without telling the user? And, if you did use error_reporting(0), isn't it still possible to log your errors in a file?

[flashisland]

This will be a production site. How can you automatically log all php errors to a file? Setting error_reporting(0) won't report any errors ever, not even to a log file. Now I can write a script to catch php warnings but I can't catch and prevent fatal or complile errors without setting this value on the server instead of my files. Is there any way I can do this?

[nortk]

Wasn't sure if that would prevent logging of error messages. You can set your own error handling function. Go to php.net and look up the set_error_handler command. This lets you set the function that handles all errors.

[flashisland]

I found a way to do exactly what I want. Check out the code snippet below...

 

><?php

   ini_set('error_reporting', E_ALL | E_STRICT);
   ini_set('display_errors', 'Off');
   ini_set('log_errors', 'On');
   ini_set('error_log', '/path/to/errorlog');

?>

 

That seems to do the trick!

[TCH-Bruce]

Good find.

 

Glad you found a solution.

[nortk]

Great! Thanks for sharing your solution.