Re: Re: poll: howto do informative error handling without the fatalities

On 9 February 2010 22:25, <clancy_1@cybec.com.au> wrote: > On Tue, 9 Feb 2010 16:09:05 +0000, rquadling@googlemail.com (Richard Quadling) wrote: > >>On 9 February 2010 14:20, Ashley Sheridan <ash@ashleysheridan.co.uk> wrote: >>> >>> On Tue, 2010-02-09 at 09:19 -0500, Robert Cummings wrote: >>> >>> Richard wrote: >>> > Hi, >>> > >>> >> I have extended the standard exception class to send me an email >>> >> whenever an exception occurs. >>> > >>> > I did that once. Once being the operative word... :-) Ended up with >>> > tens of thousands of emails one morning. At first I thought... "Wow, >>> > maybe my popularity has grown somewhat". But it hadn't. >>> >>> I have something similar... a cron job that checks the error_log file >>> every 10 minutes and sends me the contents if any exist. I also set a >>> special header so I can be sure it's not spam and appropriately route it >>> into my mail folder maze, Much less spammy :) >>> >>> Cheers, >>> Rob. >>> -- >>> http://www.interjinn.com >>> Application and Templating Framework for PHP >>> >>> >>> Real developers don't have errors in their code; they're undocumented >>> features ;) >>> >>> Thanks, >>> Ash >>> http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk >>> >>> >> >>So, no documentation AND bugs!!! Gee. I really wouldn't want to rely >>on that code base! > > So you don't use (or work with) any Microsoft product? > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > The closest I get is MSSQL which has BOL (Books OnLine). Its enough. Occasionally MS Excel VBA which is fairly well documented and always accessible via a COM interface (so self documenting more or less). But point taken. And only 12 MS critical updates today! Woo Hoo! -- ----- Richard Quadling "Standing on the shoulders of some very clever giants!" EE : http://www.experts-exchange.com/M_248814.html EE4Free : http://www.experts-exchange.com/becomeAnExpert.jsp Zend Certified Engineer : http://zend.com/zce.php?c=ZEND002498&r=213474731 ZOPA : http://uk.zopa.com/member/RQuadling