display_errors is not working.

Question

I'm trying to make errors hidden but it seems I'm doing something wrong. In my hosting configuration display_errors is set to off and I don't have .htaccess file. I tried to write follownng script

<?php
    echo ord(ini_get("display_errors")) . " ";
    die("error");
?>

And I'm getting followng output:

0 error

So, display_errors is set to off, but die() function still shows error on the screen. How to avoid this?

Answer 1

by doing die("error"), youe are commanding the code that it sohuld output the string "error" and stop the code. You are seeing the "error" message does not mean that there is an error, it is just another string.

die() is a function (commonly used to handle errors), but it is not deactivated when you set display errors off. It will still work and to whatever it is meant to do.

Answer 2

How to avoid this?

Do not use die() to handle errors.

use trigger_error() instead, which will follow the behavior you expected

Answer 3

There is a option to display error to stderr instead of stdout so you won't see them on you webpage, but only in the logs. (Manual)

Answer 4

I found error_log() function. Now I can use

function quit($error)
{
    echo "Request failed";
    error_log($error);
    die();
}