Monday, November 18, 2002, 11:43:48 AM, John Coggeshall wrote: > Back on the note that I was discussing (the E_PARSE with a user > error-handler), Perhaps the issue can be slightly skirted without having > to code a whole lot... Specifically, what about simply re-directing the > user to another URL in the event of a fatal PHP error (as specified by a > directive)... Ie.
> On_fatal_error=http://somewhere.com/error.php > Where on a E_PARSE, or something similar, PHP basically does a C-version > of: > <?php header("Location: http://somewhere.com/error.php?errno=4"); ?> > This way, users who don't care can still re-direct a browser to a nice > and pretty "sorry, the server is really screwed" HTML page... Or, if > they'd like, they can simply take that error number and create a > error-handler in PHP without us having to bother with the problems > surrounding a bad parser-state... I don't think this will work. First of all PHP would have to do output buffering as sending an header() after output has been sent wont work. <? print "Welcome"; include("File that doesn't parse.inc"); ?> This would show the parse error then a header() error, unless you buffer everything and only do output after processing. Also if I allow users to input PHP code to allow for greater customization of an application then I wouldn't want eval() to redirect you to the page saying the site is down for maintenance when they preview their script. (I'd rather have eval() create a non fatal error so I can give them a more useful error message.) If people are updating a site with code they haven't tested then you probably are not running a major site, or shouldn't be. If you expect things to break while doing an upgrade it is easy enough to force the web server to serve an "Upgrade in progress page." -- Kjartan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (http://natrak.net/) :: "Choose your friends by their character and your socks by their color. Choosing your socks by their character makes no sense, and choosing your friends by their color is unthinkable." -- PHP Development Mailing List <http://www.php.net/> To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php