PHP error logging not comprehensive?

Question

I'm working with PHP and have got the error logging turned on and turned up with:

error_reporting = E_ALL | E_STRICT

log_errors = On
error_log = /path/to/file
display_errors = Off

Now this log files catches most PHP errors but occasionally I will make a change and have the page fail to display with no logging to the file.

A specific example of this is if I do:

 interface InterfaceClass
 {
     public function someFunction();
 }

 class InterfaceInheriter implements InterfaceClass
 { 
     final public function someFunction()
     {

     }   
 }

  class FirstDerived extends InterfaceInheriter
  {   
      public function someFunction()
      {

      }
 }

Now this is all well and good, and i'm sure I have made some error, but where can I get the feedback from the interpreter for this?

ANSWER: Since i'm using Wordpress it turns out that it was somehow filtering out some log messages. I fixed it in the end by setting the appropriate logging configuration for Wordpress.

Thanks for the help!

I can't reproduce this. Granted, I'm logging to Apache's error_log, but I get [Fri Jul 02 02:49:04 2010] [error] [client 93.108.152.52] PHP Fatal error: Class InterfaceInheriter contains 1 abstract method and must therefore be declared abstract or implement the remaining methods (InterfaceInheriter::someFunction) in /home/sites/main/a.php on line 10 — Artefacto
– Artefacto, Commented Jul 2, 2010 at 1:53
Yep right you are, I didn't design that example particularly well. I have updated the question with one I just tested that fails and should yield no error logs. — radman
– radman, Commented Jul 2, 2010 at 2:11
I still get an error: [Fri Jul 02 03:51:40 2010] [error] [client 93.108.152.52] PHP Fatal error: Cannot override final method InterfaceInheriter::someFunction() in /home/sites/main/a.php on line 16 — Artefacto
– Artefacto, Commented Jul 2, 2010 at 2:52
that's interesting I definitely get nothing. I'll have another look at my config and do some general debugging. — radman
– radman, Commented Jul 2, 2010 at 3:26

nathan · Accepted Answer · 2010-07-02 02:20:27Z

1

try placing error_reporting(E_ALL | E_STRICT); in the file..

answered Jul 2, 2010 at 2:20

nathan

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3 Comments

icktoofay Over a year ago

It's already set in php.ini. Why would it need to be set again with a function?

nathan Over a year ago

if the file was included and another script higher up the execution chain was setting error_reporting with a function too.. - simple thing to try for an easy catch when debugging..

radman Over a year ago

tried it and the errors get logged correctly. I'm using Wordpress so now I just have to work out what stupidity it is doing to selectively filter my error logs.

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