How do I catch a PHP fatal (`E_ERROR`) error?

Question

I can use set_error_handler() to catch most PHP errors, but it doesn\'t work for fatal (E_ERROR) errors, such as calling a function that doesn\'t e

Answer 1

You can't catch/handle fatal errors, but you can log/report them. For quick debugging I modified one answer to this simple code

function __fatalHandler()
{
    $error = error_get_last();

    // Check if it's a core/fatal error, otherwise it's a normal shutdown
    if ($error !== NULL && in_array($error['type'],
        array(E_ERROR, E_PARSE, E_CORE_ERROR, E_CORE_WARNING,
              E_COMPILE_ERROR, E_COMPILE_WARNING,E_RECOVERABLE_ERROR))) {

        echo "
fatal error:\n";
        print_r($error);
        echo "
";
        die;
    }
}

register_shutdown_function('__fatalHandler');