passing arguments to error_reporting via an intermediate method

[sunwukung]

Hi folks

I'm playing around with some custom error handling routines, which I've wrapped in a utility class. The constructor determines if the script is executing local/live and changes the error display parameters accordingly. I've created a setter method i.e:

$obj->setErrorMode($level,$log);

 

The first argument is the reporting level, the second is an optional log file. My problem is that if I try and pass anything other than the integer label for the error_reporting level, be it a string or a constant, it stops the error reporting working. This in itself is not a massive problem, but makes the method a bit less user friendly.

 

Can anyone shed any light or give me some ideas how I could make this work (regardless of the OOP applicability in this situation)?

[RussellReal]

you should actually be able to do $obj->setErrorMode(E_STRICT); because the constants are simply ints stored in a constant

[sunwukung]

you'd think eh? I've been trying that <snip>

 

I was using E_STRICT as my test case - using constants works fine... cheers for the help