Re: E_RECOVERABLE_ERROR - 5.1.6 to 5.2.0

David CHANIAL wrote: > Hi, > > We are preparing the upgrade of PHP for our customers, but, after some tests, > we have a migration "problem" caused by the news E_RECOVERABLE_ERROR. > > So, even if the upgrade guide (http://www.php.net/UPDATE_5_2.txt) talk about > the method to handle this new errors (by using try/catch), they don't talk there is no mention of try/catch - it seems that the rather unfortunate word 'catchable' was used to describe the act of setting up a user defined error handler (see: http://php.net/manual/en/function.set-error-handler.php) to handle errors that are triggered by the php core. [errors != exceptions] > about a way to permit users to upgrade to PHP 5.2.0 without modify all theirs > scripts. > > In fact, many users had just installed open sources scripts (forums, > cms, ...), which make somes E_RECOVERABLE_ERROR. So, we can hide them by > adding E_RECOVERABLE_ERROR to the errors mask of the php.ini but it's not > solving the "real" problem. masking the errors might be short term solution - better to not mask them but also setup php to log errors rather than display them (see the display_errors ini setting) and point your users to the error log. it may be possible to merrily ignore the E_RECOVERABLE_ERRORs but chances are they point to real problems in the code and they should be corrected. > > Is there a way ? a temporary method ? which permit to use php 5.2 without > forcing customers to accept the new E_RECOVERABLE_ERROR. so a way providing a > two time upgrade (option in php.ini ?) no there is not. sorry for the bad news. > > Thanks. > > Best regards,