error-reporting

I have been working on my website for over a year now, and I am very anxious to finally put it out there for people to use. It has gotten quite large however - I almost want to say out of my control - and on top of that I am really just an self taught amateur programmer. So I want to be sure, that any errors that php produces are logged in a file, so I can than access this file and track errors down. Currently my settings are the following: <?php error_reporting(E_ALL); ini_set('display_errors', '0'); ini_set('log_errors', 1); ini_set('error_log', 'errors.log'); ?> Works pretty good so far, my

tl;dr - Is there an effective way to manage the error reporting level of PHP when working in a very strict environment, given certain processes would be made easier with a less strict level? Alright; first off, I don't believe "error suppression" is a solution. I ( am reasonably certain that I ) have never used the @ error suppression operator, and have no intention of doing so. I take advantage of set_error_handler() and ErrorException ( or some derivation of ) and I develop in an error_reporting(-1) ( future proof E_ALL | E_STRICT ) Now, I don't want to change these habits, as I find they

I am following good programming practices and I am logging the PHP errors to file instead of displaying it to user. I use set_error_handler() for that. Now the problem. For example, I have somewhere: @file_exists('/some/file/that/is/outside/openbasedir.txt'); But despite the error suppression operator, the error message logs. I don't want that. I want suppressed errors not to pass to my error handler. The @ operator temporarily sets error_reporting to 0, so you can test the value of error_reporting in your error handler: if (ini_get('error_reporting') == 0) { return; } Or even better, log only