[SOLVED] Error reporting control

[EchoFool]

Hey,

 

I was wondering if theres a way to prevent php syntax errors from displaying the page location fully?

 

Like say it had:

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_ELSE in /server/user/root/includes/connection.php on line 717

 

I want it to just say:

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_ELSE in connection.php on line 717

 

That way users have less oppotunity if an error occurs to see the directory structure of my files? Whilst at the same time the error is helpful for me to find the problem quickly cos i know where my php file names are, no two have the same name anyway.

 

Hope you can help.

[wildteen88]

It is recommended to turn display_errors off on live servers. Instead you should opt to log errors to an external file.

[Maq]

It's in your php.ini file.  It's the display_errors attribute, i believe it should be set to 0 for it not to display errors.

[EchoFool]

So will all errors naturally go to the server error log even if i dont have it displaying the errors? Does this include notices or just full warnings?

[wildteen88]

The typeof errors logged is controlled by the error_reporting level.

[EchoFool]

Where do i set that too ?

[wildteen88]

The main place would be your php.ini or you can set it during runtime in your PHP script.

[EchoFool]

Thanks

[Maq]

For example, if you want to temporarily set errors to display on your page for debugging and whatnot, you could put at the top of your script:

 

ini_set ("display_errors", "1");
error_reporting(E_ALL);

[PFMaBiSmAd]

I recommend always having error_reporting set to E_ALL so that things like visitors searching for terms that contain unexpected values that cause errors or more seriously hackers feeding your code unexpected data to break into your script, will show up in your error log so that you have a record of any problems that are occurring.