note 93060 deleted from function.die by danbrown

Note Submitter: Damien Bezborodov ---- Beware that when using PHP on the command line, die("Error") simply prints "Error" to STDOUT and terminates the program with a normal exit code of 0. If you are looking to follow UNIX conventions for CLI programs, you may consider the following: <?php fwrite(STDERR, "An error occurred.\n"); exit(1); // A response code other than 0 is a failure ?> In this way, when you pipe STDOUT to a file, you may see error messages in the console and BASH scripts can test for a response code of 0 for success: rc@adl-dev-01:~$ php die.php > test An error occurred. rc@adl-dev-01:~$ echo $? 1 Ideally, PHP would write all Warnings, Fatal Errors, etc on STDOUT, but that's another story.