Re: [PHP] Re: poll: howto do informative error handling without the fatalities

Ashley Sheridan wrote:
> On Tue, 2010-02-09 at 09:19 -0500, Robert Cummings wrote:
> 
>> Richard wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>>> I have extended the standard exception class to send me an email
>>>> whenever an exception occurs.
>>> I did that once. Once being the operative word... :-) Ended up with
>>> tens of thousands of emails one morning. At first I thought... "Wow,
>>> maybe my popularity has grown somewhat". But it hadn't.
>> I have something similar... a cron job that checks the error_log file 
>> every 10 minutes and sends me the contents if any exist. I also set a 
>> special header so I can be sure it's not spam and appropriately route it 
>> into my mail folder maze, Much less spammy :)
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Rob.
>> -- 
>> http://www.interjinn.com
>> Application and Templating Framework for PHP
>>
> 
> 
> Real developers don't have errors in their code; they're undocumented
> features ;)

Hmmmm... I've always gone with "a wise man learns from his mistakes".

Not that I'm saying I'm wise or anything... just seems a good goal to 
shoot for :)

Cheers,
Rob.
-- 
http://www.interjinn.com
Application and Templating Framework for PHP