Re: Best Practices for Hiding Errors

George Langley wrote: > 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 > You can probably do: $fp = @fsockopen ($host, 80, $errno, $errstr, $timeout); // the @ suppresses the error However, what they mean by the "never be used on production systems" is that display errors should not be "On" on a production system. You should change it to "Off" in your php.ini, or if you can't use the ini_set() in your script. -- Thanks! -Shawn http://www.spidean.com