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.
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, '[email protected]', $headers);
// Make sure that you decide how to respond to errors (on the user's side)
// Either echo an error message, or kill the entire project. Up to you...
// The code below ensures that we only "die" if the error was more than
// just a NOTICE.
if ( ($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;
PHP logs usually to the apache error log (if you're using apache), which is usually at /var/log/httpd/error_log.
CodeIgniter's error log, if enabled in config.php, is set to log by default to your application/log/date.php (Where date is today's date).
If you want, you can set a cron that emails you every hour of new changes in either (or both) files. Or you can create your own PHP error handler using set_error_handler function in PHP.
Edit: mbinette has pasted a good example that uses PHP's set_error_handler function. One caveat, this won't let you know about fatal 500 errors, the error log will.
You can have a look at the codeigniter's documentation about error reporting http://ellislab.com/codeigniter/user-guide/general/errors.html
There is a mention about error_reporting() function, probably you can hack it and do your email stuff.
error_reporting is only for setting the error reporting level. To do the email stuff, you'd have to use set_error_handler