mw-php-error

mw-php-error is a PHP function with the aim to catch almost every PHP error, like Execution timeout, overflows and syntax error and many more. But this isn't some weird magic so it can't catch the error if the Server goes down.

Requirements (tested in)

• PHP (v5.5.6)

Install

Download the file and include it into your application

Usage

Include the script into your php script and initialize the error handler

include('mw-php-error.php')
error_init(`Log function`, `Memory`, `Reporting`, `Show error`, `Error level`);

error_init Parameter

Name	Type	Default	Description
Log function	string	No default	Set the log function name which should be used when an error occurred
Memory	int	524288	set the internal error memory save for php overflows if the $log_object or the $log_info is to big it need to be increased
Reporting	boolean	true	set if the custom handling should be activated need to be true to log the error's
Show error	boolean	false	set if the PHP errors traces should be shown on the website
Error level	int	E_ALL	set the error level type

log function Parameter

Name	Type	Description
Type	string	Just the status, this doesn't change
log_object	array	The log object can be used to store important information. It is a global variable. If an error occure everything in $log_object will be transmitted to the logging function.
dataset	array	In the dataset are the information about the error. Also in the dataset are information from $log_info to store information about the process where the error occure. $log_info is a global variable

Log Example

//init error handler
include('../src/mw-php-error.php');
error_init('logging');

function logging($type, $log_object, $dataset){
    //write into log file
    $myfile = fopen("log.txt", "a");
    $text = json_encode([
        "date" => date("Y-m-d H:i:s"),
        "log_object" => $log_object,
        "dataset" => $dataset
    ]).PHP_EOL;
    fwrite($myfile, $text);
    fclose($myfile);

    //response with a clean text
    $response = [
        'type' => 'warning',
        'text' => 'An error occured'
    ];
    echo json_encode($response);
}