How can I tell PHP to dump exceptions as raw text instead of HTML?

Question

When I\'m developing my REST API in PHP I\'m working with application/json output, so when I get errors while testing in the browser they look like this:

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Answer 1

In your php.ini you can set three different settings to change how HTML errors are displayed.

• html_errors
• error_prepend_string String to output before an error message
• error_append_string String to output after an error message

I use the following in my development environment:

html_errors = On
error_prepend_string = "
"
error_append_string = "
"