Re: redirect stdout to stderr

Hi Jack, here is a link that can be of help http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=22839 also you can use custom error handler function , catch errors and write to stderr ============ function myErrorHandler($errno, $errstr, $errfile, $errline) { $ERROR='';

    switch ($errno) {
    case E_USER_ERROR:
        $ERROR = "<b>My ERROR</b> [$errno] $errstr<br />\n";
        $ERROR.= "  Fatal error on line $errline in file $errfile";
        $ERROR.= ", PHP " . PHP_VERSION . " (" . PHP_OS . ")<br />\n";
        $ERROR.= "Aborting...<br />\n";

        break;

    case E_USER_WARNING:
        $ERROR= "<b>My WARNING</b> [$errno] $errstr<br />\n";
        break;

    case E_USER_NOTICE:
        $ERROR= "<b>My NOTICE</b> [$errno] $errstr<br />\n";
        break;

    default:
        $ERROR  = echo "Unknown error type: [$errno] $errstr<br />\n";
        break;

    }

if($ERROR){

         	$stderr = fopen('php://stderr', 'w');

fwrite($stderr, $ERROR ); fclose($stderr);

        }

    /* Don't execute PHP internal error handler */
    return true;

} set_error_handler("myErrorHandler"); //code ..... ========================== I guess you can achieve what you need by one of those 2 concepts Cheers. On Feb 23, 2008, at 1:04 AM, Jack Bates wrote:

How can I implement in PHP, a script which redirects stdout to stderr, such that echo, etc. print to stderr instead of stdout? I can redirect stdout to stderr when invoking PHP like so: php script-name >&2 However I want to perform this redirection within the script itself. The solution I currently use is output buffering: ob_start(); // Call library code fwrite(STDERR, ob_get_contents()); ob_end_clean(); However I wonder if there's a more efficient way, so that output appears on stderr immediately, rather than waiting for fwrite(STDERR, ob_get_contents()); My reason for wanting this is to create a Subversion pre-commit hook using PHP_CodeSniffer: http://pear.php.net/package/PHP_CodeSniffer I want: 1) Commits to our Subversion repository to be checked against our coding standard with PHP_CodeSniffer 2) Commits to fail when PHP_CodeSniffer returns an error 3) PHP_CodeSniffer's report to be displayed to the Subversion user, so they can fix any problems I achieved 1) and 2), but PHP_CodeSniffer prints its report to stdout and Subversion only displays stderr to the user, not stdout. So to make this pre-commit hook fool proof, I want it to redirect PHP_CodeSniffer's report to stderr. Anyone have better suggestions than output buffering? Much thanks, Jack

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