RE: [PHP-DEV] error handling

>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. Check out my patch and tell me what you think. Since this can be turned on/off (default will be off) we'll maintain the current "pretty" (sorta) errors and it is completely platform-independant >+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. Again, check my patch out and let me know what you think. John >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 >> > >