Quick Tip: Email Error Logs with PHP

Or more efficiently, a switch statement with separate conditionals for development and live environments.
Example: Development environment displays all errors whereas the live evironment shows a nice “Sorry, it’s broken” type message and just email/logs the full issue.

I avoid this when I have a single IP per vhost (example might be a website that has SSL/TLS enabled.) Why? Because it’s very trivial to change the localhost alias in your hosts file to the website’s IP address and send that host header to the server. If you have code like this in place, then it’s easy to get a little extra information for an attack vector. Since most of us deploy, most of the time, to shared hosting, it’s probably not a big deal (most of the time.)

Cheers!

I’m working on a big project that does a lot of communicating with Social Networks. It’s impossible to fully test this project and the even bigger concern is that Facebook can change their API at anytime and break the script.

Creating a logging system like this lets me be notified right away if scripts get broken.

@ThomasV,

I think what you can do is include you code like this

//Jeffrey’s code here

//call your function here
my_function();

//trigger error handler if any errors need to be caught
trigger_error(“Your custom error message”, E_USER_NOTICE);

Let me know if that works :)

@ThomasV,

I have edited Jeffrey`s code here to provide i guess a simpler explanation.

Just tested this so this should work :)

If this works for you , you can proceed and email the error by adapting what i have missed out from the original code inside the function

<?php

function nettuts_error_handler($number, $message, $file, $line, $vars)

{
$email = "
An error ($number) occurred on line
$line and in the file: $file.
$message “;

echo $email;
die();
}

// We should use our custom function to handle errors.
set_error_handler(‘nettuts_error_handler’);

trigger_error(“Your custom error message”, E_USER_ERROR);

//this function below is undefined so should echo out “Your custom error message”
my_function();

?>

@ThomasV,

I am lol-ing at myself as to how i thought that script would run. Obviously i have manually triggered the error handler there so thats not going to work is it ? ;p sorry!

I havent had much experience with error handling and when i tested the previous script, i had a eureka moment and i wrapped it up! sorry about that :)

After doing some research, here is the best solution

sorry about the confusion earlier!!