Good advice, what I usually do is a conditional to turn it all off except for a set of IP addresses that I work at. On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 3:52 PM, Shawn McKenzie <nospam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > George Langley wrote: >> Hi all! Have a question about hiding PHP errors from the end user. >> I have the following lines: >> >> $fp = fsockopen ($host, 80, $errno, $errstr, $timeout); >> if (!$fp) { >> // problem, put error handing code here >> } else { >> // success, do whatever here >> } >> >> but if fsockopen is unsuccessful, PHP will display an error warning on the page before it even gets to my error handling code. >> I found the display_errors command at: >> >> < http://ie.php.net/manual/en/errorfunc.configuration.php#ini.display-errors> >> >> but they give the following warning: >> >> "This is a feature to support your development and should never be used on production systems (e.g. systems connected to the internet)." >> >> Am unclear what that means - is it okay to add: >> >> ini_set('display_errors','Off'); >> >> to my page, so that an end user won't ever get the warning displayed and I can deal with the error behind the scenes? Or is there a better way to keep PHP from writing error codes to the screen? >> Thanks! >> >> George Langley Multimedia Developer Audio/Video Editor Musician, Arranger, Composer www.georgelangley.ca >> > > You can probably do: > > $fp = @fsockopen ($host, 80, $errno, $errstr, $timeout); > // the @ suppresses the error > > However, what they mean by the "never be used on production systems" is > that display errors should not be "On" on a production system. You > should change it to "Off" in your php.ini, or if you can't use the > ini_set() in your script. > > -- > Thanks! > -Shawn > http://www.spidean.com > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php