Req #72572 [Opn]: Error Reporting on Text-based Web Server

Edit report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=72572&edit=1 ID: 72572 Updated by: cmb@php.net Reported by: David at Refoua dot me Summary: Error Reporting on Text-based Web Server Status: Open Type: Feature/Change Request Package: Unknown/Other Function Operating System: Any PHP Version: 7.0.8 Block user comment: N Private report: N New Comment: Good idea, but I'm afraid that is not generally possible. Consider <?php ob_start(); trigger_error(…); header('Content-Type: …); echo ob_get_clean(); Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2016-07-10 20:47:49] David at Refoua dot me Description: ------------ When PHP is used with internal error reporting mechanism, PHP will determine if the error message is printed on a command-line interface, or a Web Server (i.e. cgi). All CLI messages are outputted using the text-only format. However, this only is desired if the Web Server is only returning a HTML file. PHP should determine the current header, and if Content-Type is set to text/plain, or text/*, or anything that a current modern browser would not interpret as a HTML document, any content produced by HTML should be formatted for a text-only output. Therefore, PHP's own error reporting should output the same way CLI does, when the header's Content-Type is set to text/plain with PHP. Test script: --------------- NOTE: This script is called with cgi from a web server, and not from cli. <?php header("Content-Type: text/plain"); abcd(); // An undefined function to produce error ?> Expected result: ---------------- Fatal error: Uncaught Error: Call to undefined function abcd() in -:1 Stack trace: #0 {main} thrown in - on line 1 Actual result: -------------- <br /> <b>Fatal error</b>: Uncaught Error: Call to undefined function abcd() in -:1 Stack trace: #0 {main} thrown in <b>-</b> on line <b>1</b><br /> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Edit this bug report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=72572&edit=1