Should PHP warnings cause 500 errors?

[brianlange]

Should PHP warnings cause http 500 errors? I was under the impression that only a fatal error would cause a 500 error?

I am troubleshooting a max_input_vars warning that may be the cause of a 500 error.

 

 

[scootstah]

No PHP errors cause HTTP 500, they all send HTTP 200.

[Andy-H]

I don't know why but my employers servers send 500 errors when there's an error in my scripts, I can over-ride this with

ini_set('display_errors', 'on');
error_reporting(E_ALL | E_STRICT);

[scootstah]

I don't know why but my employers servers send 500 errors when there's an error in my scripts

 

You can achieve this functionality by catching errors in error handlers, but I don't know of any other way to do it.

[kicken]

IIS will throw 500 errors rather than displaying the error under certain fastcgi configurations.  The servers where I work do that.  We just have to check the error log file whenever we see a 500 error to see what the error message is.  It's a bit annoying but doesn't come up that often on those servers as most errors are caught on my dev environment which uses apache+mod php and displays them fine.