note 8775 deleted from function.set-error-handler by sobak

Note Submitter: j dot schriver at vindiou dot com ---- A quote from Zeev Suraski: "The CVS version (scheduled for 4.0.2) of the function has been enhanced: - The error handler accepts three additional arguments - the filename in which the error occured, the line number in which the error occured, and the context of the in which the error occured (a hash that points to the active symbol table at the place of the error)." So, you can now do this: function myErrorHandler ($errno, $errstr, $errfile, $errline, $errcontext) {...} [Editor's Note: The above phrase: "...the context of the in which the error occured (a hash that points to the active symbol table at the place of the error)." may be difficult for new programmers to understand. What it means is that the last argument passed to your error handler (the $errcontext in the above example) will contain an array that contains the value of every variable that existed in the scope the error was triggered in. Try the following example to see exactly how this works: <?php // Define a simple error handler function error_handler ($level, $message, $file, $line, $context) { echo <<<_END_ An error of level $level was generated in file $file on line $line. The error message was: $message The following variables were set in the scope that the error occurred in: <blockquote> _END_; print_r ($context); print "\n</blockquote>"; } // Set the error handler to the error_handler() function set_error_handler ('error_handler'); // Make a function and trigger an error function foo () { global $SERVER_ADMIN; $bar = 1; // Trigger the error in the local scope of the function trigger_error ("Some error"); } foo(); // Now trigger the error in global scope trigger_error ("Some other error"); ?> -zak@php.net]