On Wed, 15 May 2002 08:52:49 +0200, Analysis & Solutions wrote:
>> So my question is, why has that changed, and what do we do now to
>> authenticate users and redirect them to anothe page? And what the hell
>> is this "@" thingy, i cant see to find anything on it in the manual,
>> and search doesnt work for chars like that.
>
> The @ represses error messages. For example:
> mail('', 'subject', 'body');
> will produce an error message, that the to address is bad, while
> @mail('', 'subject', 'body');
> will silently fail.
>
> Rather than doing that, it's better to write your code so that there
> won't be error messages in the first place.
Not only that: if you are running a production server, you will probably
want to log your error messages to a file (or syslog, or whatever),
instead of printing them. So 'display_errors' should be off. If that is
the case, you don't need to use @ anymore, because there will be no HTML
output even in case of problems. The advantage of this is that you can
use the exact same code on a development server (with display_errors =
on) and a production server.
Vincent
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