Best way to handle errors on a php page?

Question

Right now my pages look something like this:

if($_GET[\'something\'] == \'somevalue\')
{
    $output .= \'somecode\';

    // make a DB query, fetch a row
           


        

Answer 1

Handle PHP error and warning in correctly by using error handling functions. ( See example here )

Best way to Error handling in PHP is, You can stop all error reporting by adding this line in top of your php file -

error_reporting(0);

//OR

error_reporting('E_ALL');

// Predefined Constant

Error handling in PHP using functions:

• debug_backtrace — Generates a backtrace
• debug_print_backtrace — Prints a backtrace
• error_clear_last — Clear the most recent error
• error_get_last — Get the last occurred error
• error_log — Send an error message to the defined error handling routines
• error_reporting — Sets which PHP errors are reported
• restore_error_handler — Restores the previous error handler function
• restore_exception_handler — Restores the previously defined exception handler function
• set_error_handler — Sets a user-defined error handler function
• set_exception_handler — Sets a user-defined exception handler function
• trigger_error — Generates a user-level error/warning/notice message
• user_error — Alias of trigger_error

All functions which is listed above are used for Error handling in PHP.