PHP fatals come back as 200, how can i make it return a 500
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A:
You would have to catch the thrown error using try/catch and then use that catch block to send a header() with the 500 error.
try {
...badcode...
throw new Exception('error');
} catch (Exception $e) {
header("Status: 500 Server Error");
var_dump($e->getMessage());
}
If the fatal exception is not surrounded by try {} catch blocks then you must register a global handler and use register_shutdown_function() to check for an error at script end.
Xeoncross
2009-10-12 17:30:35
That will catch exceptions, but it won't catch PHP Fatal errors, which are handled outside the scope of exceptions.
Alan Storm
2009-10-12 17:33:03
Fatal/syntax errors can't be captured as far as i know, neither by errorhandling nor by exceptionhandling
ChrisR
2009-10-12 19:13:46
@ChrisRamakers: I've read something about using output handlers to catch PHP fatal errors.
Alix Axel
2010-01-24 02:49:36
depends, syntax errors are triggered at compile time thus the logic that handles output or exception handling simple never occurs because the page is simply not executed because i could not be compiled. But again, i'm not an absolute expert so i might not be aware of the output handlers you are talking about
ChrisR
2010-01-26 21:24:28
Actually, you use `register_shutdown_function()` to catch E_FATAL errors.
Xeoncross
2010-08-18 02:08:07
A:
It is not possible to handle PHP E_ERROR in any way according to the PHP documentation: http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.set-error-handler.php
Nor is is possible to handle "E_PARSE, E_CORE_ERROR, E_CORE_WARNING, E_COMPILE_ERROR, E_COMPILE_WARNING, and most of E_STRICT" according to that link.
You CAN provide a handler for the other error, warning, and notices including E_USER_ERROR, but that's really not as useful as it sounds since this error only gets thrown intentionally by the programmer with trigger_error().
And of course you can catch any Exception (even the ones thrown by the native PHP functions).
I agree that this is a problem. Servers should NOT return 200 OK when application code crashes and burns.
Jonathan Hanson
2010-01-24 02:41:18
A:
I have used "set_exception_handler" to handle uncaught exceptions.
function handleException($ex) {
error_log("Uncaught exception class=" . get_class($ex) . " message=" . $ex->getMessage() . " line=" . $ex->getLine());
ob_end_clean(); # try to purge content sent so far
header('HTTP/1.1 500 Internal Server Error');
echo 'Internal error';
}
set_exception_handler('handleException');