note 65824 deleted from function.error-reporting by bjori

Note Submitter: Chris ---- @ the_bug_the_bug at hotmail dot com I'd extract the E_ALL first, because using it can shorter the string. <?php function error2string($value) { $level_names = array( E_ERROR => 'E_ERROR', E_WARNING => 'E_WARNING', E_PARSE => 'E_PARSE', E_NOTICE => 'E_NOTICE', E_CORE_ERROR => 'E_CORE_ERROR', E_CORE_WARNING => 'E_CORE_WARNING', E_COMPILE_ERROR => 'E_COMPILE_ERROR', E_COMPILE_WARNING => 'E_COMPILE_WARNING', E_USER_ERROR => 'E_USER_ERROR', E_USER_WARNING => 'E_USER_WARNING', E_USER_NOTICE => 'E_USER_NOTICE', E_ALL => 'E_ALL' ); if(defined(E_STRICT)) $errorlevels[E_STRICT]='E_STRICT'; $levels=array(); if($value&E_ALL) { $levels[]='E_ALL'; $value&=~E_ALL; } foreach($level_names as $level=>$name) if($value&$level) $levels[]=$name; return implode(' | ',$levels); } ?> And a little function for opposite conversion. <?php function string2error($string) { $levels=explode('|',$string); foreach($levels as $level) { $level=trim($level); if(defined($level)) $value|=(int)constant($level); } return $value; } ?> If you want to make sure string2error uses only E_* constants, then just replace defined($level) with in_array($level,$level_names) (using the array from the example above). And if you plan to use both functions, you may as well define $level_names as a global var for better performance ;)