Best Practices for Hiding Errors

Hi all! Have a question about hiding PHP errors from the end user. I have the following lines: $fp = fsockopen ($host, 80, $errno, $errstr, $timeout); if (!$fp) { // problem, put error handing code here } else { // success, do whatever here } but if fsockopen is unsuccessful, PHP will display an error warning on the page before it even gets to my error handling code. I found the display_errors command at: < http://ie.php.net/manual/en/errorfunc.configuration.php#ini.display-errors> but they give the following warning: "This is a feature to support your development and should never be used on production systems (e.g. systems connected to the internet)." Am unclear what that means - is it okay to add: ini_set('display_errors','Off'); to my page, so that an end user won't ever get the warning displayed and I can deal with the error behind the scenes? Or is there a better way to keep PHP from writing error codes to the screen? Thanks! George Langley    Multimedia Developer    Audio/Video Editor    Musician, Arranger, Composer www.georgelangley.ca