Question

Afternoon,

I’ve been looking around for a while without success to see if there’s a method to display a custom error page, whenever any PHP error arises, hiding the error from users – currently achieved by error_reporting(0), then emailing the specific error to my email address.

Initial logic (I know it’s not right, it’s just to help you understand better):

if(error_reporting){
    ob_clean();
    include('classes/email.php');
    $email = new email($pdo);
    $email->mailError(ERROR_REPORT);
    include('error-page.php');
    die();
}

Any help would be much appreciated, thanks!

Answer 1

Well, you could use a custom error handling function. See set_error_handler()

function sendMailOnError($errno, $errstr, $errfile, $errline, $errcontext) {
    $subject = 'An Error Occured';
    $body = "An Error Occured\n\n".
            "$errstr [$errno]\n".
            "File: $errfile\n".
            "Line: $errline\n".
            "Current local variables: ".print_r($errcontext, true);
    //send the email here
} 

set_error_handler('sendMailOnError');