Re: Declare minimum PHP version required?

On 05 февр. 2014 г., at 13:43, Lester Caine <lester@lsces.co.uk> wrote: > Ferenc Kovacs wrote: >> For general purpose applications (like drupal/wordpress/etc.) it wouldn't >> be useful either, because they want nice and descriptive error screens >> instead of php fatal errors which would most of the time just result in a >> blank screen and some lines in the error log. > > This is perhaps one of the areas that would benefit from some improvement in a PHP6 roadmap. It > IS all too easy to get a blank screen already without adding more? Invariably when an ISP upgrades > their PHP service a number of their client sites simply give a white screen, and in many cases the > users have no idea where to go next? More verbose responses actually on screen would be a little > more constructive. Performance improvements are all very well, and do have a place, but a white > screen is no use at all? Certainly it's a not uncommon result these days when upgrading PHP > versions ... well, idea is that production web-sites should never report details of their inner workings (including errors) on screen. error-report is in the error-log. but nice useful errors are a benefit of their own, so I hope that PHP6 will have https://wiki.php.net/rfc/engine_exceptions -- Alexey Zakhlestin CTO at Grids.by/you https://github.com/indeyets PGP key: http://indeyets.ru/alexey.zakhlestin.pgp.asc

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