The constants below are always available as part of the PHP core.
Note: You may use these constant names in php.ini but not outside of PHP, like in httpd.conf, where you'd use the bitmask values instead.
| Value | Constant | Description | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |
E_ERROR
(int)
|
Fatal run-time errors. These indicate errors that can not be recovered from, such as a memory allocation problem. Execution of the script is halted. | |
| 2 |
E_WARNING
(int)
|
Run-time warnings (non-fatal errors). Execution of the script is not halted. | |
| 4 |
E_PARSE
(int)
|
Compile-time parse errors. Parse errors should only be generated by the parser. | |
| 8 |
E_NOTICE
(int)
|
Run-time notices. Indicate that the script encountered something that could indicate an error, but could also happen in the normal course of running a script. | |
| 16 |
E_CORE_ERROR
(int)
|
Fatal errors that occur during PHP's initial startup. This is like an
E_ERROR, except it is generated by the core of PHP.
|
|
| 32 |
E_CORE_WARNING
(int)
|
Warnings (non-fatal errors) that occur during PHP's initial startup.
This is like an E_WARNING, except it is generated
by the core of PHP.
|
|
| 64 |
E_COMPILE_ERROR
(int)
|
Fatal compile-time errors. This is like an E_ERROR,
except it is generated by the Zend Scripting Engine.
|
|
| 128 |
E_COMPILE_WARNING
(int)
|
Compile-time warnings (non-fatal errors). This is like an
E_WARNING, except it is generated by the Zend
Scripting Engine.
|
|
| 256 |
E_USER_ERROR
(int)
|
User-generated error message. This is like an
E_ERROR, except it is generated in PHP code by
using the PHP function trigger_error().
|
|
| 512 |
E_USER_WARNING
(int)
|
User-generated warning message. This is like an
E_WARNING, except it is generated in PHP code by
using the PHP function trigger_error().
|
|
| 1024 |
E_USER_NOTICE
(int)
|
User-generated notice message. This is like an
E_NOTICE, except it is generated in PHP code by
using the PHP function trigger_error().
|
|
| 2048 |
E_STRICT
(int)
|
Enable to have PHP suggest changes to your code which will ensure the best interoperability and forward compatibility of your code. | |
| 4096 |
E_RECOVERABLE_ERROR
(int)
|
Catchable fatal error. It indicates that a probably dangerous error
occurred, but did not leave the Engine in an unstable state. If the error
is not caught by a user defined handle (see also
set_error_handler()), the application aborts as it
was an E_ERROR.
|
|
| 8192 |
E_DEPRECATED
(int)
|
Run-time notices. Enable this to receive warnings about code that will not work in future versions. | |
| 16384 |
E_USER_DEPRECATED
(int)
|
User-generated warning message. This is like an
E_DEPRECATED, except it is generated in PHP code by
using the PHP function trigger_error().
|
|
| 32767 |
E_ALL
(int)
|
All errors, warnings, and notices. |
The above values (either numerical or symbolic) are used to build up a bitmask that specifies which errors to report. You can use the bitwise operators to combine these values or mask out certain types of errors. Note that only '|', '~', '!', '^' and '&' will be understood within php.ini.
-1 is also semantically meaningless as a bit field, and only works in 2s-complement numeric representations. On a 1s-complement system -1 would not set E_ERROR. On a sign-magnitude system -1 would set nothing at all! (see e.g. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ones%27_complement)
If you want to set all bits, ~0 is the correct way to do it.
But setting undefined bits could result in undefined behaviour and that means *absolutely anything* could happen :-)A simple and neat way to get the error level from the error code. You can even customize the error level names further.
<?php
$exceptions = [
E_ERROR => "E_ERROR",
E_WARNING => "E_WARNING",
E_PARSE => "E_PARSE",
E_NOTICE => "E_NOTICE",
E_CORE_ERROR => "E_CORE_ERROR",
E_CORE_WARNING => "E_CORE_WARNING",
E_COMPILE_ERROR => "E_COMPILE_ERROR",
E_COMPILE_WARNING => "E_COMPILE_WARNING",
E_USER_ERROR => "E_USER_ERROR",
E_USER_WARNING => "E_USER_WARNING",
E_USER_NOTICE => "E_USER_NOTICE",
E_STRICT => "E_STRICT",
E_RECOVERABLE_ERROR => "E_RECOVERABLE_ERROR",
E_DEPRECATED => "E_DEPRECATED",
E_USER_DEPRECATED => "E_USER_DEPRECATED",
E_ALL => "E_ALL"
];
echo $exceptions["1"];
$code = 256;
echo $exceptions[$code];
?>
Output:
E_ERROR
E_USER_ERROR
This will need updating when PHP updates the error level names. Otherwise, it works just fine.[Editor's note: fixed E_COMPILE_* cases that incorrectly returned E_CORE_* strings. Thanks josiebgoode.]
The following code expands on Vlad's code to show all the flags that are set. if not set, a blank line shows.
<?php
$errLvl = error_reporting();
for ($i = 0; $i < 15; $i++ ) {
print FriendlyErrorType($errLvl & pow(2, $i)) . "<br>\\n";
}
function FriendlyErrorType($type)
{
switch($type)
{
case E_ERROR: // 1 //
return 'E_ERROR';
case E_WARNING: // 2 //
return 'E_WARNING';
case E_PARSE: // 4 //
return 'E_PARSE';
case E_NOTICE: // 8 //
return 'E_NOTICE';
case E_CORE_ERROR: // 16 //
return 'E_CORE_ERROR';
case E_CORE_WARNING: // 32 //
return 'E_CORE_WARNING';
case E_COMPILE_ERROR: // 64 //
return 'E_COMPILE_ERROR';
case E_COMPILE_WARNING: // 128 //
return 'E_COMPILE_WARNING';
case E_USER_ERROR: // 256 //
return 'E_USER_ERROR';
case E_USER_WARNING: // 512 //
return 'E_USER_WARNING';
case E_USER_NOTICE: // 1024 //
return 'E_USER_NOTICE';
case E_STRICT: // 2048 //
return 'E_STRICT';
case E_RECOVERABLE_ERROR: // 4096 //
return 'E_RECOVERABLE_ERROR';
case E_DEPRECATED: // 8192 //
return 'E_DEPRECATED';
case E_USER_DEPRECATED: // 16384 //
return 'E_USER_DEPRECATED';
}
return "";
}
?>PHP 7 makes E_STRICT irrelevant, reclassifying most of the errors as proper warnings, notices or E_DEPRECATED: https://wiki.php.net/rfc/reclassify_e_strictA neat way to have a place in code to control error reporting configuration :)
<?php
$errorsActive = [
E_ERROR => FALSE,
E_WARNING => TRUE,
E_PARSE => TRUE,
E_NOTICE => TRUE,
E_CORE_ERROR => FALSE,
E_CORE_WARNING => FALSE,
E_COMPILE_ERROR => FALSE,
E_COMPILE_WARNING => FALSE,
E_USER_ERROR => TRUE,
E_USER_WARNING => TRUE,
E_USER_NOTICE => TRUE,
E_STRICT => FALSE,
E_RECOVERABLE_ERROR => TRUE,
E_DEPRECATED => FALSE,
E_USER_DEPRECATED => TRUE,
E_ALL => FALSE,
];
error_reporting(
array_sum(
array_keys($errorsActive, $search = true)
)
);
?>An other way to get all PHP errors that are set to be reported. This code will even work, when additional error types are added in future.
<?php
$pot = 0;
foreach (array_reverse(str_split(decbin(error_reporting()))) as $bit) {
if ($bit == 1) {
echo array_search(pow(2, $pot), get_defined_constants(true)['Core']). "<br>\n";
}
$pot++;
}
?>A better way to map error constant to their names (instead of switch) :
function getErrorName($code)
{
static $error_names = [
E_ERROR => 'E_ERROR',
E_WARNING => 'E_WARNING',
E_PARSE => 'E_PARSE',
E_NOTICE => 'E_NOTICE',
E_CORE_ERROR => 'E_CORE_ERROR',
E_CORE_WARNING => 'E_CORE_WARNING',
E_COMPILE_ERROR => 'E_COMPILE_ERROR',
E_COMPILE_WARNING => 'E_COMPILE_WARNING',
E_USER_ERROR => 'E_USER_ERROR',
E_USER_WARNING => 'E_USER_WARNING',
E_USER_NOTICE => 'E_USER_NOTICE',
E_STRICT => 'E_STRICT',
E_RECOVERABLE_ERROR => 'E_RECOVERABLE_ERROR',
E_DEPRECATED => 'E_DEPRECATED',
E_USER_DEPRECATED => 'E_USER_DEPRECATED',
];
return $error_names[$code] ?? '';
}Notes posted above limited to current errors level as on 26th Aug 2016, following snippet will work even on introduction of new error level
$errLvl = error_reporting();
for ( $i = 1; $i < E_ALL; $i*=2 )
{
print FriendlyErrorType($errLvl & $i) . "<br>\n";
}
function FriendlyErrorType($type)
{
switch($type)
{
case E_ERROR: // 1 //
return 'E_ERROR';
case E_WARNING: // 2 //
return 'E_WARNING';
case E_PARSE: // 4 //
return 'E_PARSE';
case E_NOTICE: // 8 //
return 'E_NOTICE';
case E_CORE_ERROR: // 16 //
return 'E_CORE_ERROR';
case E_CORE_WARNING: // 32 //
return 'E_CORE_WARNING';
case E_COMPILE_ERROR: // 64 //
return 'E_COMPILE_ERROR';
case E_COMPILE_WARNING: // 128 //
return 'E_COMPILE_WARNING';
case E_USER_ERROR: // 256 //
return 'E_USER_ERROR';
case E_USER_WARNING: // 512 //
return 'E_USER_WARNING';
case E_USER_NOTICE: // 1024 //
return 'E_USER_NOTICE';
case E_STRICT: // 2048 //
return 'E_STRICT';
case E_RECOVERABLE_ERROR: // 4096 //
return 'E_RECOVERABLE_ERROR';
case E_DEPRECATED: // 8192 //
return 'E_DEPRECATED';
case E_USER_DEPRECATED: // 16384 //
return 'E_USER_DEPRECATED';
}
return "";
}As for me, the best way to get error name by int value is that. And it's works fine for me ;)
<?php
array_flip(array_slice(get_defined_constants(true)['Core'], 1, 15, true))[$type];
//the same in readable form
array_flip(
array_slice(
get_defined_constants(true)['Core'],
1,
15,
true
)
)[$type]
?>super simple error code to human readable conversion:
function prettycode($code){
return $code == 0 ? "FATAL" : array_search($code, get_defined_constants(true)['Core']);
}A shorter version of vladvarna's FriendlyErrorType($type)
<?php
function getErrorTypeByValue($type) {
$constants = get_defined_constants(true);
foreach ( $constants['Core'] as $key => $value ) { // Each Core constant
if ( preg_match('/^E_/', $key ) ) { // Check error constants
if ( $type == $value )
return( "$key=$value");
}
}
} // getErrorTypeByValue()
echo "[".getErrorTypeByValue( 1 ) . "]". PHP_EOL;
echo "[".getErrorTypeByValue( 0 ) . "]". PHP_EOL;
echo "[".getErrorTypeByValue( 8 ) . "]". PHP_EOL;
?>
Will give
[E_ERROR=1]
[]
[E_NOTICE=8]My version!
For long list function returns for example "E_ALL without E_DEPRECATED "
function errorLevel()
{
$levels = array(
'E_ERROR',
'E_WARNING',
'E_PARSE',
'E_NOTICE',
'E_CORE_ERROR',
'E_CORE_WARNING',
'E_COMPILE_ERROR',
'E_COMPILE_WARNING',
'E_USER_ERROR',
'E_USER_WARNING',
'E_USER_NOTICE',
'E_STRICT',
'E_RECOVERABLE_ERROR',
'E_DEPRECATED',
'E_USER_DEPRECATED',
'E_ALL'
);
$excluded = $included = array();
$errLvl = error_reporting();
foreach ($levels as $lvl) {
$val = constant($lvl);
if ($errLvl & $val) {
$included []= $lvl;
} else {
$excluded []= $lvl;
}
}
if (count($excluded) > count($included)) {
echo '<br />Consist: '.implode(',', $included);
} else {
echo '<br />Consist: E_ALL without '.implode(',', $excluded);
}
}Well, technically -1 will show all errors which includes any new ones included by PHP. My guess is that E_ALL will always include new error constants so I usually prefer:
<?php
error_reporting(E_ALL | E_STRICT);
?>
Reason being: With a quick glance anyone can tell you what errors are reported. -1 might be a bit more cryptic to newer programmers.function FriendlyErrorType($type)
{
switch($type)
{
case E_ERROR: // 1 //
return 'E_ERROR';
case E_WARNING: // 2 //
return 'E_WARNING';
case E_PARSE: // 4 //
return 'E_PARSE';
case E_NOTICE: // 8 //
return 'E_NOTICE';
case E_CORE_ERROR: // 16 //
return 'E_CORE_ERROR';
case E_CORE_WARNING: // 32 //
return 'E_CORE_WARNING';
case E_CORE_ERROR: // 64 //
return 'E_COMPILE_ERROR';
case E_CORE_WARNING: // 128 //
return 'E_COMPILE_WARNING';
case E_USER_ERROR: // 256 //
return 'E_USER_ERROR';
case E_USER_WARNING: // 512 //
return 'E_USER_WARNING';
case E_USER_NOTICE: // 1024 //
return 'E_USER_NOTICE';
case E_STRICT: // 2048 //
return 'E_STRICT';
case E_RECOVERABLE_ERROR: // 4096 //
return 'E_RECOVERABLE_ERROR';
case E_DEPRECATED: // 8192 //
return 'E_DEPRECATED';
case E_USER_DEPRECATED: // 16384 //
return 'E_USER_DEPRECATED';
}
return $type;
}I use this code to help mimic the default error handler, the only difference is that the levels end up being all caps, which I don't care to fix. You could also get rid of the underscores, but again, I don't care :P
Until php starts adding constants starting with E_ that have values overlapping with other E_ constants, this seems to be the shortest way of converting error code integers to strings understandable by meat bags. It will also work with new types, so that's nice.
<?php
function friendly_error_type($type) {
static $levels=null;
if ($levels===null) {
$levels=[];
foreach (get_defined_constants() as $key=>$value) {
if (strpos($key,'E_')!==0) {continue;}
$levels[$value]=substr($key,2);
}
}
return (isset($levels[$type]) ? $levels[$type] : "Error #{$type}");
}
echo friendly_error_type(1); #ERROR
echo friendly_error_type(2); #WARNING
echo friendly_error_type(3); #Error #3
?>
Tested on 5.6.12 and 7.0.3 (The first was by accident, didn't realize I was sshed into production :3)