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

Since most answers here are unnecesarily verbose, here's my non-ugly version of the top voted answer:

function errorHandler($errno, $errstr, $errfile = '', $errline = 0, $errcontext = array()) {
    //Do stuff: mail, log, etc
}

function fatalHandler() {
    $error = error_get_last();
    if($error) errorHandler($error["type"], $error["message"], $error["file"], $error["line"]);
}

set_error_handler("errorHandler")
register_shutdown_function("fatalHandler");