How to turn off mysql errors from being displayed to screen in CodeIgniter

Question

Even though error_reporting is set to 0, database errors are still being printed to screen. Is there a setting somewhere I can change to disable database error reporting? This is for CodeIgniter v1.6.x

EDIT: Re: Fixing errors - Um, yes. I want to fix the errors. I get error notices from my error log, not from what my visitors see printed to their screen. That helps no one, and hurts my system's security.

EDIT 2: Setting error_reporting to 0 does not affect CodeIgniter's built-in error logging class from writing to the error log.

Answer 1

Maybe it's just me, but wouldn't it be better to fix the errors than ignore them?

Answer 2

• You don't want to change error_reporting to 0, because that will also suppress errors from being logged.

• instead you should change display_errors to 0

This doesn't explain why you are getting errors displayed though, assuming error_reporting is actually 0. Maybe the framework handles these errors

Answer 3

You can edit the /errors/db_error.php file under the application directory - that is the template included for DB errors.

However, you should really just fix the errors.

Answer 4

Found the answer:

In config/database.php:

// ['db_debug'] TRUE/FALSE - Whether database errors should be displayed.

so:

$db['default']['db_debug'] = FALSE;

... should disable.

Answer 5

I think it's valid to not want to display errors. This definitely does not indicate ignoring them or not fixing, just simply not displaying them for the world to see.