Question

In asp.net I can easily redirect the user to a customer error page if there’s an unhandled error in the page by putting this on the web.config:

<customErrors mode="RemoteOnly" defaultRedirect="Oops.aspx"  />

I studying php right now and what I want to happen is redirect the user to another page if there’s an unhandled error.

Answer 1

You don’t want to redirect if there is an error. You want to respond with http 500.

For non-fatal errors, you can use php’s set_error_handler and set_exception_handler functions. For fatal errors, PHP will respond with 500 and a blank page, but you can configure the web server to serve a custom page. For Apache for example, you put this line in the config:

ErrorDocument 500 /error500.html