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Herr
Herr

Reputation: 2735

Advice on hunting for PHP errors on a live page

Background
On live environments you have to fix things from time to time. After you publish your code, some errors or glitches may slip through and go live on your page.
Users often do not report back on the errors so the page is broken until you discover it on your own.

Question
Is there a recommended way in PHP to detect something that is broken when there is a PHP error besides the PHP log?

For example, would you recommend to place a code that emails you if an error occurs on the page?

Thank you

Upvotes: 0

Views: 90

Answers (1)

Baba
Baba

Reputation: 95121

I think you should start maximizing the use of Exception http://php.net/manual/en/language.exceptions.php and creation of custom set_error_handler http://php.net/manual/en/function.set-error-handler.php with this features you can begin to categories your error and diffident format for notification

Example

GreenException Save to MongoDB log

BlueException Send to Review

WhiteException Send me a Mail

UnknownException Send me a SMS

You should also try to make during development the following settings are turn on and never suppress any error 

  error_reporting(E_ALL);
  ini_set('display_errors','On');

Develop your application in such a way where everything is validated and verified

Example (File Upload) or else throw Exception

Can I upload

File Was Updated

Is it a valid File

Does the destination folder exist

Is it writable

Copy File

Was File successfully copied

etc .....

This way you would minimize production errors

Last always ... do unit testing .....

Upvotes: 1

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