phperror-handlingcustom-error-handling

How to receive email every time PHP error is thrown on our website


I realize this may be a ridiculous question, but does anyone know how I can setup our website to send an email to our admin every time a PHP error is thrown on our website?


Solution

  • Use an error handler. For example, from: http://net.tutsplus.com/tutorials/php/quick-tip-email-error-logs-to-yourself-with-php/

    // Our custom error handler  
    function nettuts_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, 'you@youremail.com', $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('nettuts_error_handler');