Question

I’m developing a web-application using PHP which is on tests by some of my friends. What approach do you recommend me to use in order to know what warnings are they getting but without displaying them using ini_set('display_errors', 1);?

Also, the application will run in a intranet in which I’ll not have access remotely.

I was thinking to send daily emails with some information to me, but i don’t know which are important facts to be saved. Do you have a article/sample for me? Do you have a better advice for me?

Answer 1

• You can log the errors without displaying them.

For example you can do something like:

error_reporting(E_ALL | E_STRICT); //For PHP 6 E_STRICT become part of E_ALL
ini_set('display_errors', 'Off');
ini_set('log_errors', 'On');
ini_set('error_log', $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] . '/php.log');

You can also edit PHP.ini or do it with an .htaccess (if on Apache).

• If you can’t access this log remotely you can make a small PHP application that will send you the log via email.

You can use PHP mail() but a library like PHPMailer will speed things up (and will be easier to use).

• Have a CRON job (or something equivalent) fire the email every day (or week or else).