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 <nos...@mckenzies.net> 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
>
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