Re: error handling

John Coggeshall wrote:

|I know this is possible now, but not within the error handling |function of PHP, or without setting a custom error handler. Well, it's not really possible now -- a E_PARSE won't get thrown to a custom PHP handler, it'll just die with a parse error.

It is possible. Not pretty but still possible :) You can use a series of hacks to make PHP behave and allow you to intercept an fatal error, and extract the error message. In short: * You use auto_append to append a short PHP file that

    only sets a flag to true

* You install a custom error handle to handle "normal"

    errors.

* You need to turn the output buffering on. * You register a shutdown function the checks the flag;

    if the flag is set to false - you have a fatal error
    on your hands. In that case you need to clear the
    output buffer but not before you extract the fatal error
    message (you need to have display_errors set to on).
    Then you can forward the fatal error to your normal
    error handler for processing.

The full explanation is available here: http://www.webkreator.com/php/configuration/foolproof-php-handling-2.html I do not recall the version I used and I haven't checked whether this still works with recent releases. It did work at the time. Bye, Ivan