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

[email protected] (Richard Quadling)
Newsgroups php.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 9 February 2010 14:20, Ashley Sheridan <[email protected]> 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 ;)
>
> Thanks,
> Ash
> http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk
>
>

So, no documentation AND bugs!!! Gee. I really wouldn't want to rely
on that code base!

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