Zend Framework handle exceptions gracefully in production environment

Question

My application handles errors happily in development, both errors and exceptions. When I switch to production the application just returns a blank page as the config is set to not display errors. Is there a standard method in ZF for sending visitors to a nicely formatted 'Page not found' using a layout from the application so that they aren't presented with a blank page. Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

You can do this with a custom ErrorController, an example:

http://www.talkincode.com/a-useful-error-controller-class-for-zend-framework-applications-729.html

Answer 2

Usually if you used the CLI to create the zend project it will already be able to do what you request. If you go the scripts/view/errors/error.phtml that will be the phtml file you can use to create the view you are looking to use.

Although if you did not use the CLI to create the zend project bellow is the generated ErrorController used

<?php

class ErrorController extends Nanaly_Controller
{

    public function errorAction()
    {
        $errors = $this->_getParam('error_handler');

        switch ($errors->type) {
            case Zend_Controller_Plugin_ErrorHandler::EXCEPTION_NO_ROUTE:
            case Zend_Controller_Plugin_ErrorHandler::EXCEPTION_NO_CONTROLLER:
            case Zend_Controller_Plugin_ErrorHandler::EXCEPTION_NO_ACTION:

                // 404 error -- controller or action not found
                $this->getResponse()->setHttpResponseCode(404);
                $this->view->message = 'Page not found';
                break;
            default:
                // application error
                $this->getResponse()->setHttpResponseCode(500);
                $this->view->message = 'Application error';
                break;
        }

        // Log exception, if logger available
        if ($log = $this->getLog()) {
            $log->crit($this->view->message, $errors->exception);
        }

        // conditionally display exceptions
        if ($this->getInvokeArg('displayExceptions') == true) {
            $this->view->exception = $errors->exception;
        }

        $this->view->request   = $errors->request;
    }

    public function getLog()
    {
        $bootstrap = $this->getInvokeArg('bootstrap');
        if (!$bootstrap->hasPluginResource('Log')) {
            return false;
        }
        $log = $bootstrap->getResource('Log');
        return $log;
    }


}

Note: this Controller was generated using Zend Version 1.10.0

and the view should be placed in the same location as stated earlier.