Re: PHP Function warnings/errors suppressed - Why?

In the immortal words of Chris Wopat  on 02/01/10 10:04:
> I noticed that the '@' symbol is being used to suppress errors about
> missing functions in "siteaddsubmit.php" and a few other files. It's
> in the code for posix stuff like posix_getpwuid() and
> posix_getpwnam(). I've seen a few mailing list posts about blank pages
> after submitting forms, this is certainly the cause of it. One could
> use function_exists() to test but that seems unnecessary and the @'s
> should just be dropped. Why are they there?

Actually, I don't have the foggiest idea why you would want to suppress 
warnings/error messages completely.  At the very least redirect them to 
a logfile or syslog.

Debugging is hard enough as it is without making it impossible,



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