I'm trying to get the ini_set("error_reporting",E_ALL); work. No matter what kind of errors I write I just get blank screen when the script fails. Do I need to also echo the errors to screen? Or can the error reporting be disabled by the server admin (my adsl operator)? so that no errors are printed to screen. I just set the error reporting at the beginning of the code like: <?php ini_set("error_reporting",E_ALL); etc... thanks -Will "Justin French" <justin.french@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> kirjoitti viestissä:3902E10C-69EC-11D9-96D6-000A9579CE3A@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > On 19/01/2005, at 5:36 PM, William Stokes wrote: > >> I would like to add some debugging/info code to my pages. In test >> environment of course. Any ideas how to do this? I mean for example to >> print >> to a web page the line number when the script fails or something like >> that. >> It's a pain on the **s to hunt typo's by just reading the source over and >> over again. > > William, > > I start by trying to programatically find out if I'm in a development or > production environment and setting a constant DEV to true or false. For > me, I development things on my desktop Mac, so the server and client are > the same machine, and share the same IP address. So my check for DEV is > if the client IP and server IP match. > > <? define('DEV',($_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR']==$_SERVER['SERVER_ADDR'])); ?> > > So, this then gives a constant DEV to test to decide if I'm in the > development or production environment, eg: > > Next, I set-up PHP's built-in error reporting for both environments: > > <? > if(DEV) > { > ini_set("error_reporting",E_ALL); > ini_set("display_errors",1); > ini_set("log_errors",0); > } > else > { > ini_set("error_reporting",E_ALL ^ E_NOTICE); > ini_set("display_errors",0); > ini_set("log_errors",1); > } > ?> > > In short, this logs most errors in production (not notices), and dumps > them to the screen if we're in development. You'll already see that you > get quite a lot of information from the errors (line numbers, reason for > the error, etc), and I think this is what you're looking for. > > But so far this only caters to PHP errors triggered by built-in functions > and source. Smarter programmers will build in their own debugging lines, > custom errors and notices to make the tracking down of bugs and quirks > much much easier. For this, you can use trigger_error() > <http://au2.php.net/trigger_error>. > > > That should be more than enough for the average PHP hack, but there is of > course the option to write your own custom error handler to customise the > look and feel of the error messages, send emails, log things to a > database, etc. > > It's all pretty powerful stuff, so read up! > > > --- > Justin French, Indent.com.au > justin.french@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Web Application Development & Graphic Design -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php