Monday 23 February 2015

Email PHP errors instead of displaying it

By default, most servers are set to display an error message when an error occured in one of your script. For security reasons, you may want to get an email with the error, instead of displaying it to the public.

<?php
// Our custom error handler
function nettuts_error_handler($number, $message, $file, $line, $vars){
 $email = "
  <p>An error ($number) occurred on line
  <strong>$line</strong> and in the <strong>file: $file.</strong>
  <p> $message </p>";

 $email .= "<pre>" . print_r($vars, 1) . "</pre>";

 $headers = 'Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1' . "\r\n";

 // Email the error to someone...
 error_log($email, 1, 'you@youremail.com', $headers);

 // Make sure that you decide how to respond to errors (on the user's side)
 // Either echo an error message, or kill the entire project. Up to you...
 // The code below ensures that we only "die" if the error was more than
 // just a NOTICE.
 if ( ($number !== E_NOTICE) && ($number < 2048) ) {
  die("There was an error. Please try again later.");
 }
}

// We should use our custom function to handle errors.
set_error_handler('nettuts_error_handler');

// Trigger an error... (var doesn't exist)
echo $somevarthatdoesnotexist;
?>

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