Bug #61091 [Nab]: User-defined error handler run despite at sign (@) error control operator

Edit report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=61091&edit=1 ID: 61091 User updated by: chealer at gmail dot com Reported by: chealer at gmail dot com Summary: User-defined error handler run despite at sign (@) error control operator Status: Not a bug Type: Bug Package: *General Issues PHP Version: 5.3.10 Block user comment: N Private report: N New Comment: I guess it does, but this report is not about error_reporting, it is about the @ error control operator. According to the documentation of @, any error message that might be generated by the expression will be "ignored". Either the PHP interpreter is changed so that this becomes the case, or, if the current behavior is desired, the documentation is adapted to reflect the actual semantics. To be perfectly clear, I am not asking to change the de facto semantics. I am only asking that whatever semantics is used by the implementation matches the documented semantics. Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2012-02-19 20:24:52] rasmus@php.net It says, "however you are still able to read the current value of error_reporting and act appropriately" followed by "Of particular note is that this value will be 0 if the statement that caused the error was prepended by the @ error-control operator." To me this says quite clearly that error_reporting will be 0 if the @ was used and that your custom error handler can read this value and "act appropriately." ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2012-02-19 19:49:22] chealer at gmail dot com Rasmus, the part you quoted is about error_reporting() settings, it merely mentions the error control operator. My question was, could you quote where "http://www.php.net/set_error_handler [...] explains that the user-defined error handler should check the error_reporting level in order to comply with the '@' if so desired"? ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2012-02-15 16:53:06] rasmus@php.net "error_reporting() settings will have no effect and your error handler will be called regardless - however you are still able to read the current value of error_reporting and act appropriately. Of particular note is that this value will be 0 if the statement that caused the error was prepended by the @ error-control operator." ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2012-02-15 16:25:42] chealer at gmail dot com Thanks rasmus, but I do not see this explanation. Could you quote it? ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2012-02-15 03:45:12] rasmus@php.net This is very much by design and definitely won't be changed since that would break all sorts of code. It is also explicitly documented at http://www.php.net/set_error_handler which explains that the user-defined error handler should check the error_reporting level in order to comply with the '@' if so desired. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The remainder of the comments for this report are too long. To view the rest of the comments, please view the bug report online at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=61091 -- Edit this bug report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=61091&edit=1