Question

What I want to do is when an if condition doesn’t go as it should, instead of echo’ing the my custom error message in else { }, storing the error message somewhere else and retrieving it from another page.

For example, this is my page with the if condition:

if ($something < 4){

echo 'yes it is less than four';

else { echo 'no it isn\'t less than four';}

I want to for example store these error messages in strings and give them numbers:

if ($something < 4){

$debug11 =  'yes it is less than four';
echo '11';


else { $debug10 = 'no it isn\'t less than four'; echo '10'; }

then let’s assume there’s a debug.php file with php class that can echo these messages but in order to do so it needs to know what $debug11 is, can it do that without including that php page? is that what public strings are for? or should I just define all of them in debug.php

the point of all this is that jquery will call this file.php and get a message like 11 or 10 which in this case is success or failure then I will be able to know why it failed with debug.php. numbers are easier since I may play with text messages a lot and easier to confirm with numbers than text in if conditions.

Answer 1

You want to store error-messages and read this messages by another script.
It means you need a storage.
As a storage, you can use files, or memcache, or APC, or queues.
Create logger, which will write messages to the storage, and then in debug.php you will read list of messages from the storage.
I recommend to use Memcache, set_error_handler and trigger_error.