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error_reporting

(PHP 4, PHP 5, PHP 7, PHP 8)

error_reportingFixe le niveau de rapport d'erreurs PHP

Description

error_reporting(?int $error_level = null): int

error_reporting() modifie la directive error_reporting pendant l'exécution du script. PHP possède plusieurs niveaux d'erreurs, utiliser cette fonction configure ce niveau pendant la durée (d'exécution) de votre script. Si le paramètre optionnel error_level n'est pas défini, error_reporting() retournera uniquement le niveau de rapport d'erreurs courant.

Liste de paramètres

error_level

Le nouveau niveau error_reporting. Il peut être un champ de bits ou une combinaison de constantes. L'utilisation des constantes est vivement recommandée pour assurer une compatibilité maximale avec les futures versions. Au fur et à mesure que de nouveaux niveaux d'erreurs sont créés, les valeurs évoluent, c'est pourquoi les anciennes valeurs n'ont plus forcément la même signification.

Les constantes représentant les niveaux d'erreurs disponibles et la signification de ces niveaux d'erreurs est décrite dans le manuel sur les constantes prédéfinies.

Valeurs de retour

Retourne le niveau d'error_reporting, before qu'il ne soit changé en error_level

Note: L'opérateur de contrôle d'erreur @ modifie le error_level pendant la gestion des erreurs.

Historique

Version Description
8.0.0 error_level est désormais nullable.

Exemples

Exemple #1 Exemple avec error_reporting()

<?php

// Désactiver le rapport d'erreurs
error_reporting(0);

// Rapporte les erreurs d'exécution de script
error_reporting(E_ERROR | E_WARNING | E_PARSE);

// Rapporter les E_NOTICE peut vous aider à améliorer vos scripts
// (variables non initialisées, variables mal orthographiées..)
error_reporting(E_ERROR | E_WARNING | E_PARSE | E_NOTICE);

// Rapporte toutes les erreurs à part les E_NOTICE
// C'est la configuration par défaut de php.ini
error_reporting(E_ALL & ~E_NOTICE);

// Rapporte toutes les erreurs PHP
error_reporting(E_ALL);

// Rapporte toutes les erreurs PHP
error_reporting(-1);

// Même chose que error_reporting(E_ALL);
ini_set('error_reporting', E_ALL);

?>

Notes

Astuce

En passant la valeur -1, toutes les erreurs possibles seront affichées, même lors de l'ajout d'autres niveaux et constantes dans les futures versions de PHP. Ce comportement est équivalent à fournir la constante E_ALL.

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User Contributed Notes 27 notes

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info at hephoz dot de
15 years ago
If you just see a blank page instead of an error reporting and you have no server access so you can't edit php configuration files like php.ini try this:

- create a new file in which you include the faulty script:

<?php
error_reporting
(E_ALL);
ini_set("display_errors", 1);
include(
"file_with_errors.php");
?>

- execute this file instead of the faulty script file

now errors of your faulty script should be reported.
this works fine with me. hope it solves your problem as well!
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dave at davidhbrown dot us
17 years ago
The example of E_ALL ^ E_NOTICE is a 'bit' confusing for those of us not wholly conversant with bitwise operators.

If you wish to remove notices from the current level, whatever that unknown level might be, use & ~ instead:

<?php
//....
$errorlevel=error_reporting();
error_reporting($errorlevel & ~E_NOTICE);
//...code that generates notices
error_reporting($errorlevel);
//...
?>

^ is the xor (bit flipping) operator and would actually turn notices *on* if they were previously off (in the error level on its left). It works in the example because E_ALL is guaranteed to have the bit for E_NOTICE set, so when ^ flips that bit, it is in fact turned off. & ~ (and not) will always turn off the bits specified by the right-hand parameter, whether or not they were on or off.
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jcastromail at yahoo dot es
3 years ago
Under PHP 8.0, error_reporting() does not return 0 when then the code uses a @ character.

For example

<?php

$a
=$array[20]; // error_reporting() returns 0 in php <8 and 4437 in PHP>=8

?>
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lhenry at lhenry dot com
4 years ago
In php7, what was generally a notice or a deprecated is now a warning : the same level of a mysql error … unacceptable for me.

I do have dozen of old projects and I surely d'ont want to define every variable which I eventually wrote 20y ago.

So two option: let php7 degrade my expensive SSDs writing Gb/hours or implement smthing like server level monitoring ( with auto_[pre-ap]pend_file in php.ini) and turn off E_WARNING

Custom overriding the level of php errors should be super handy and flexible …
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&IT
3 years ago
error_reporting(E_ALL);
if (!ini_get('display_errors')) {
ini_set('display_errors', '1');
}
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Fernando Piancastelli
19 years ago
The error_reporting() function won't be effective if your display_errors directive in php.ini is set to "Off", regardless of level reporting you set. I had to set

display_errors = On
error_reporting = ~E_ALL

to keep no error reporting as default, but be able to change error reporting level in my scripts.
I'm using PHP 4.3.9 and Apache 2.0.
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adam at adamhahn dot com
7 years ago
To expand upon the note by chris at ocproducts dot com. If you prepend @ to error_reporting(), the function will always return 0.

<?php
error_reporting
(E_ALL);
var_dump(
error_reporting(), // value of E_ALL,
@error_reporting() // value is 0
);
?>
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ecervetti at orupaca dot fr
15 years ago
It could save two minutes to someone:
E_ALL & ~E_NOTICE integer value is 6135
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huhiko334 at yandex dot ru
5 years ago
If you get a weird mysql warnings like "Warning: mysql_query() : Your query requires a full tablescan...", don't look for error_reporting settings - it's set in php.ini.
You can turn it off with
ini_set("mysql.trace_mode","Off");
in your script
http://tinymy.link/mctct
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vdephily at bluemetrix dot com
19 years ago
Note that E_NOTICE will warn you about uninitialized variables, but assigning a key/value pair counts as initialization, and will not trigger any error :
<?php
error_reporting
(E_ALL);

$foo = $bar; //notice : $bar uninitialized

$bar['foo'] = 'hello'; // no notice, although $bar itself has never been initialized (with "$bar = array()" for example)

$bar = array('foobar' => 'barfoo');
$foo = $bar['foobar'] // ok

$foo = $bar['nope'] // notice : no such index
?>
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kevinson112 at yahoo dot com
5 years ago
I had the problem that if there was an error, php would just give me a blank page. Any error at all forced a blank page instead of any output whatsoever, even though I made sure that I had error_reporting set to E_ALL, display_errors turned on, etc etc. But simply running the file in a different directory allowed it to show errors!

Turns out that the error_log file in the one directory was full (2.0 Gb). I erased the file and now errors are displayed normally. It might also help to turn error logging off.

https://techysupport.co/norton-tech-support/
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luisdev
5 years ago
This article refers to these two reporting levels:

// Report all PHP errors (see changelog)
error_reporting(E_ALL);

// Report all PHP errors
error_reporting(-1);

What is the difference between those two levels?

Please update this article with a clear explanation of the difference and the possible use cases.
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keithm at aoeex dot com
13 years ago
Some E_STRICT errors seem to be thrown during the page's compilation process. This means they cannot be disabled by dynamically altering the error level at run time within that page.

The work-around for this was to rename the file and replace the original with a error_reporting() call and then a require() call.

Ex, rename index.php to index.inc.php, then re-create index.php as:

<?php
error_reporting
(E_ALL & ~(E_STRICT|E_NOTICE));
require(
'index.inc.php');
?>

That allows you to alter the error reporting prior to the file being compiled.

I discovered this recently when I was given code from another development firm that triggered several E_STRICT errors and I wanted to disable E_STRICT on a per-page basis.
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chris at ocproducts dot com
7 years ago
The error_reporting() function will return 0 if error suppression is currently active somewhere in the call tree (via the @ operator).
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j dot schriver at vindiou dot com
23 years ago
error_reporting() has no effect if you have defined your own error handler with set_error_handler()

[Editor's Note: This is not quite accurate.

E_ERROR, E_PARSE, E_CORE_ERROR, E_CORE_WARNING, E_COMPILE_ERROR and E_COMPILE_WARNING error levels will be handled as per the error_reporting settings.

All other levels of errors will be passed to the custom error handler defined by set_error_handler().

Zeev Suraski suggests that a simple way to use the defined levels of error reporting with your custom error handlers is to add the following line to the top of your error handling function:

if (!($type & error_reporting())) return;

-zak@php.net]
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qeremy ! gmail
8 years ago
If you want to see all errors in your local environment, you can set your project URL like "foo.com.local" locally and put that in bootstrap file.

<?php
if (substr($_SERVER['SERVER_NAME'], -6) == '.local') {
ini_set('display_errors', 1);
ini_set('error_reporting', E_ALL);
// or error_reporting(E_ALL);
}
?>
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roberto at spadim dot com dot br
14 years ago
see more information about php 5.3 deprecated errors

http://php.net/manual/en/migration53.deprecated.php
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rojaro at gmail dot com
13 years ago
To enable error reporting for *ALL* error messages including every error level (including E_STRICT, E_NOTICE etc.), simply use:

<?php error_reporting(-1); ?>
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kc8yds at gmail dot com
15 years ago
this is to show all errors for code that may be run on different versions

for php 5 it shows E_ALL^E_STRICT and for other versions just E_ALL

if anyone sees any problems with it please correct this post

<?php
ini_set
('error_reporting', version_compare(PHP_VERSION,5,'>=') && version_compare(PHP_VERSION,6,'<') ?E_ALL^E_STRICT:E_ALL);
?>
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Rash
9 years ago
If you are using the PHP development server, run from the command line via `php -S servername:port`, every single error/notice/warning will be reported in the command line itself, with file name, and line number, and stack trace.

So if you want to keep a log of all the errors even after page reloads (for help in debugging, maybe), running the PHP development server can be useful.
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DarkGool
18 years ago
In phpinfo() error reporting level display like a bit (such as 4095)

Maybe it is a simply method to understand what a level set on your host
if you are not have access to php.ini file

<?php
$bit
= ini_get('error_reporting');
while (
$bit > 0) {
for(
$i = 0, $n = 0; $i <= $bit; $i = 1 * pow(2, $n), $n++) {
$end = $i;
}
$res[] = $end;
$bit = $bit - $end;
}
?>

In $res you will have all constants of error reporting
$res[]=int(16) // E_CORE_ERROR
$res[]=int(8) // E_NOTICE
...
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fredrik at demomusic dot nu
18 years ago
Remember that the error_reporting value is an integer, not a string ie "E_ALL & ~E_NOTICE".

This is very useful to remember when setting error_reporting levels in httpd.conf:

Use the table above or:

<?php
ini_set
("error_reporting", E_YOUR_ERROR_LEVEL);
echo
ini_get("error_reporting");
?>

To get the appropriate integer for your error-level. Then use:

php_admin_value error_reporting YOUR_INT

in httpd.conf

I want to share this rather straightforward tip as it is rather annoying for new php users trying to understand why things are not working when the error-level is set to (int) "E_ALL" = 0...

Maybe the PHP-developers should make ie error_reporting("E_ALL"); output a E_NOTICE informative message about the mistake?
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teynon1 at gmail dot com
12 years ago
It might be a good idea to include E_COMPILE_ERROR in error_reporting.

If you have a customer error handler that does not output warnings, you may get a white screen of death if a "require" fails.

Example:
<?php
error_reporting
(E_ERROR | E_WARNING | E_PARSE);

function
myErrorHandler($errno, $errstr, $errfile, $errline) {
// Do something other than output message.
return true;
}

$old_error_handler = set_error_handler("myErrorHandler");

require
"this file does not exist";
?>

To prevent this, simply include E_COMPILE_ERROR in the error_reporting.

<?php
error_reporting
(E_ERROR | E_WARNING | E_PARSE | E_COMPILE_ERROR);
?>
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Daz Williams (The Northeast)
15 years ago
Only display php errors to the developer...

<?php
if($_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR']=="00.00.00.00")
{
ini_set('display_errors','On');
}
else
{
ini_set('display_errors','Off');
}
?>

Just replace 00.00.00.00 with your ip address.
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misplacedme at gmail dot com
14 years ago
I always code with E_ALL set.
After a couple of pages of
<?php
$username
= (isset($_POST['username']) && !empty($_POST['username']))....
?>

I made this function to make things a little bit quicker. Unset values passed by reference won't trigger a notice.

<?php
function test_ref(&$var,$test_function='',$negate=false) {
$stat = true;
if(!isset(
$var)) $stat = false;
if (!empty(
$test_function) && function_exists($test_function)){
$stat = $test_function($var);
$stat = ($negate) ? $stat^1 : $stat;
}
elseif(
$test_function == 'empty') {
$stat = empty($var);
$stat = ($negate) ? $stat^1 : $stat;
}
elseif (!
function_exists($test_function)) {
$stat = false;
trigger_error("$test_function() is not a valid function");
}
$stat = ($stat) ? true : false;
return
$stat;
}
$a = '';
$b = '15';

test_ref($a,'empty',true); //False
test_ref($a,'is_int'); //False
test_ref($a,'is_numeric'); //False
test_ref($b,'empty',true); //true
test_ref($b,'is_int'); //False
test_ref($b,'is_numeric'); //false
test_ref($unset,'is_numeric'); //false
test_ref($b,'is_number'); //returns false, with an error.
?>
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Alex
17 years ago
error_reporting() may give unexpected results if the @ error suppression directive is used.

<?php
@include 'config.php';
include
'foo.bar'; // non-existent file
?>

config.php
<?php
error_reporting
(0);
?>

will throw an error level E_WARNING in relation to the non-existent file (depending of course on your configuration settings). If the suppressor is removed, this works as expected.

Alternatively using ini_set('display_errors', 0) in config.php will achieve the same result. This is contrary to the note above which says that the two instructions are equivalent.
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forcemdt
10 years ago
Php >5.4

Creating a Custom Error Handler

set_error_handler("customError",E_ALL);
function customError($errno, $errstr)
{
echo "<b>Error:</b> [$errno] $errstr<br>";
echo "Ending Script";
die();
}
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