Programming PHP

Name

error_reporting

Synopsis

int error_reporting([int level])

Sets the level of errors reported by PHP to level and returns the current level; if level is omitted, the current level of error reporting is returned. The following values are available for the function:

E_ERROR	Runtime warnings
E_WARNING	Runtime warnings
E_PARSE	Compile-time parse errors
E_NOTICE	Runtime notices
E_CORE_ERROR	Errors generated internally by PHP
E_CORE_WARNING	Warnings generated internally by PHP
E_COMPILE_ERROR	Errors generated internally by the Zend scripting engine
E_COMPILE_WARNING	Warnings generated internally by the Zend scripting engine
E_USER_ERROR	Runtime errors generated by a call to trigger_error( )
E_USER_WARNING	Runtime warnings generated by a call to trigger_error( )
E_ALL	All of the above options

Any number of these options can be ORed together, so that errors in each of the levels are reported. For example, the following code turns off user errors and warnings, performs some actions, then restores the original level:

<?php
 $level = error_reporting();
 error_reporting($level & ~(E_USER_ERROR | E_USER_WARNING));
 // do some stuff
 error_reporting($level);
?>