On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 12:52 PM, Paul M Foster <paulf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > There's certain class of errors which happen before any error-handler > (set_error_handler) can catch them, like parse errors and such. Is there > a way to have these generate the same type of response as the errors > handled by set_error_handler()? You can use register_shutdown_function() [1] and error_get_last() [2] to check if the last error type is one of the fatal errors. Here's a simple example: function shutdown() { $error = error_get_last(); if ($error['type'] === E_ERROR) { // fatal error has occured } } register_shutdown_function('shutdown'); There are at least four fatal error types to check for. See [3] and [4] for the list and links to more examples. Peace, David [1] http://php.net/manual/en/function.register-shutdown-function.php [2] http://php.net/manual/en/function.error-get-last.php [3] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3108361/php-is-there-a-way-to-redirect-to-an-error-page-in-register-shutdown-function [4] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4410632/handle-fatal-errors-in-php-using-register-shutdown-function