parse error redirect

[dlf1987]

lets say that a customer gets this error "parse error: parse error in C:\*****secret root *****\httpdocs\error.php on line 1"

 

is there a way to have the customer redirected to an error page? i have custom error pages turn on in my plesk cp, but i cant figure out which one is for parsing errors. I got it to redirect if you went to a page that doesnt exists, but how do you that with pages that exists but has errors?

 

thanks

[per1os]

If you are using PHP 5 I believe a try/catch would work, not sure. Because Parse errors are a special kind of errors and will kill the running of the whole script because it can't "compile"

 

The custom plesk error pages are like 404 500 internal etc. Nothing to do with PHP really.

[chigley]

<?php

set_error_handler("error");

function error($errno, $errstr, $errfile, $errline, $errcontext) {
header("Location: errorpage.php");
}

?>

 

Pretty simple, you can edit it to do only certain errors etc.

 

Chigley

[per1os]

There you go, I guess you learn something new every day.

[dlf1987]

i dont mean to be dumb, but where do i put it? and how do i use it?

 

heres an example error that will cause a parse error

<?php echo "error ?>

how would you use that function to redirect to an error page with having that error above ???

 

thanks

[per1os]

I believe the usage would be like this:

 

// error.inc.php

<?php
set_error_handler("error");

function error($errno, $errstr, $errfile, $errline, $errcontext) {
header("Location: errorpage.php");
}
?>

 

//test.php

<?php
include('error.inc.php'); // include for error handling

echo "Testing me!!!

echo 'How about this test?';
?>

 

Not tested but that is how I believe it would be used.

[chigley]

Yeah that's it. If you put that at the top of each page (or in an include) then edit the error() function to do what you want it to do with the error.

 

Inside the error code you may just want to redirect it to a page saying "An error has occured" or you may want to die() or you may want to do something different! Just modify the error function until it does what you want it to do, using these variables in your code: $errno, $errstr, $errfile, $errline, $errcontext.

 

[dlf1987]

i did it exactly as you said, still just shows parse error... is it because i have PHP Version 4.3.11?

 

thanks!

[chigley]

No it should work for PHP 4.3. :S

[per1os]

www.php.net/set_error_handler

 

set_error_handler

(PHP 4 >= 4.0.1, PHP 5)

 

Should work, maybe try this ???

 

// error.inc.php

<?php
function error($errno, $errstr, $errfile, $errline, $errcontext) {
  echo 'There was an error on the page ' . $errno . '. Please report it to the site admin!';
}

$errorHandler = set_error_handler("error");
?>

 

//test.php

<?php
include('error.inc.php'); // include for error handling

echo "Testing me!!!

echo 'How about this test?';
?>

 

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