Question

It is frustrating to get error reports from users via email. I bet that most users wouldn’t send a bug report to developer. Therefore, I wanna set up that if the user get PHP error codes, I would like to get the error reports automatically via email.

Is there a way to get user error reports in PHP or CodeIgniter?

Thank you.

Answer 1

You can do something like this:

<?php  
// Our custom error handler  
function email_error_handler($number, $message, $file, $line, $vars)  
{  
    $email = " 
        <p>An error ($number) occurred on line 
        <strong>$line</strong> and in the <strong>file: $file.</strong> 
        <p> $message </p>";  
    $email .= "<pre>" . print_r($vars, 1) . "</pre>";  
    $headers = 'Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1' . "\r\n";  
    // Email the error to someone...  
    error_log($email, 1, '[e-mail]', $headers);  
    // Make sure that you decide how to respond to errors (on the user's side)  
    // Either echo an error message, or kill the entire project. Up to you...  
    // The code below ensures that we only "die" if the error was more than  
    // just a NOTICE.  
    if ( ($number !== E_NOTICE) && ($number < 2048) ) {  
        die("There was an error. Please try again later.");  
    }  
}  
// We should use our custom function to handle errors.  
set_error_handler('email_error_handler'); 
// Trigger an error... (var doesn't exist)  
echo $somevarthatdoesnotexist;  

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