Re: error handling

Writing for newbies, I often heard them mentioning one things they liked about PHP (before even trying to use it) - "PHP errors are not 500 weird pages made by your browser". Moving fatal errors to HTTP 500 can be somewhat confusing, unless we have a solid way handling ALL errors in some very logical way. In other words - powerful but clear enough to understand and use for neo programmers. +1 to what someone mentioned earlier - PHP is not *only* for web, it is *primarily* for web. Maybe, using HTTP headers for error handling would make this less obvious. just my +.2c -- Maxim Maletsky maxim@php.net "James Cox" <james@imajes.info> wrote... : > it can; 500 means server error -- perl, cgi, mod_include, etc all do it, so > why shouldn't php? > > -- james > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: John Coggeshall [mailto:john@coggeshall.org] > > Sent: Wednesday, November 20, 2002 11:06 PM > > To: 'James Cox' > > Cc: 'PHP Developers Mailing List' > > Subject: RE: [PHP-DEV] error handling > > > > > > > > >true... > > > > > >i'd like to see a 500 error though, and some persistent vars... > > > > See, the problem that I'm seeing here is that I don't believe PHP is > > reponsible for setting the error code returned by PHP.. For instance, a > > 404 error isn't handle by PHP at all. Likewise, I don't think PHP can > > say "turn this into a 500 error" to Apache. > > > > John > > > > > > > > > > -- james > > > > > >> -----Original Message----- > > >> From: John Coggeshall [mailto:john@coggeshall.org] > > >> Sent: Wednesday, November 20, 2002 10:48 PM > > >> To: 'James Cox' > > >> Subject: RE: [PHP-DEV] error handling > > >> > > >> > > >> >that can't really be done because parsing has happened, and so > > >> >output has started -- but if we return status 500, the > > >> >webserver can manage it properly.. > > >> > > >> Only if output buffering is off. Custom error handling should have > > >> output buffering on anyway as I've already said... John > > >> > > >> > > > > > > > > > > -- > PHP Development Mailing List <http://www.php.net/> > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php >