How can I get php to return 500 upon encountering a fatal exception?

Question

PHP fatal errors come back as status code 200 to the HTTP client. How can I make it return a status code 500 (Internal server error)?

Answer 1

Since PHP >= 5.4

http_response_code(500);
echo json_encode( [ 'success' => false , 'message' => 'Crazy thing just happened!' ]);
exit();

Please set the httpCode before echo.