Question

I have found a PHP system that have a interesting feature.

If there is a error on the code, the default error message is not showed, the programmer have created a way to filter those messages and create a log to show those error messages as simple alerts on the administrator view.

How do I do that?

Thanks in advance

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Server: Apache

The system is from a company in Brazil and do not have access to it, it was just presented to me

Answer 1

PHP allows you to configure error reporting via the following directives in the php.ini file:

display_errors – “…determines whether errors should be printed to the screen as part of the output or if they should be hidden from the user.”

error_reporting – “Set the error reporting level.”

log_errors – “Tells whether script error messages should be logged to the server’s error log” or a custom log file.

Note: If you change the php.ini file, you need to restart Apache for the changes to become effective.

You can also use set_error_handler to create a custom error-handling function.