Question

I have a web service site that is restful enabled, so other websites/ajax script can make a call to the site to get/set data. However, whenever the web service site somehow returns a PHP fatal error, the HTTP status that is returned is 200 instead of 500. Is there a way to fix it so that whenever a fatal error occurs, returns 500 instead of 200? Or, if it is not possible, how can I change my client to recognize the fatal error returned by the webservice?

Answer 1

One possible way would be to set the default response to 500, if everything executes successfully set the response to 200:

http_response_code(500);
render_my_page();
http_response_code(200);