Suppress user-visible PHP error messages but not error log messages

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I'd like for PHP to still send it's minor and fatal errors to the error log but not display it to the user. I thought at first I could use error_reporting(0); to suppress all error messages, period, but that's not really ideal. I know I could also put everything inside a try-catch but that's not really ideal either. Is there anything more automatic for regular errors like there are for fatal errors (e.g. register_shutdown_function())?

Speaking of fatal errors, I tried catching them using register_shutdown_function() as suggested in this SO answer. When I did it this way the fatal error was caught but error_get_last(); is always empty. I also tried making use of debug_backtrace(); to catch the error message. It does contain the info I want about fatal errors but it appears to have the undesired side effect of actually printing that info out to the user, the very situation I am trying to avoid.

Are there any other ways to do what I'm trying to do here and/or ways I can do this (log the error messages to the console but not to the user) using the methods I have described above? Thank you.

Please see the manual for the settings that exist: php.net/manual/en/errorfunc.configuration.php — hakre
– hakre, Commented Mar 15, 2012 at 16:55

Your Common Sense · Accepted Answer · 2012-03-15 16:56:01Z

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Set display_errors=0 and log_errors=1 in php.ini.

This should be the default for any production server.

edited Mar 15, 2012 at 16:56

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keybored Over a year ago

Oh geez, you're right, I'll have to talk to the admin that set up that app server and ask them why php.ini isn't set up that way on production. Thank you!

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