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(PHP 4 >= 4.0.1, PHP 5, PHP 7, PHP 8)

trigger_error — 产生一个用户级别的 error/warning/notice 信息

说明

trigger_error(string $message, int $error_level = E_USER_NOTICE): bool

用于触发一个用户级别的错误条件，它能结合内置的错误处理器所关联，或者可以使用用户定义的函数作为新的错误处理程序(set_error_handler())。

该函数在你运行出现异常时，需要产生一个特定的响应时非常有用。

参数

message: 该 error 的特定错误信息，长度限制在了 1024 个字节。超过 1024 字节的字符都会被截断。
error_level: 该 error 所特定的错误类型。仅 E_USER 系列常量对其有效，默认是 E_USER_NOTICE。

返回值

如果指定了错误的 error_level 会返回 false ，正确则返回 true。

示例

示例 #1 trigger_error() 示例

set_error_handler() 可见到更多详细的例子。

<?php
if ($divisor == 0) {
    trigger_error("Cannot divide by zero", E_USER_ERROR);
}
?>

注释

警告

在 message 里的 HTML 实体，并不会被转义。如果错误消息要显示在浏览器里，需要对错误消息使用 htmlentities()。

参见

error_reporting() - 设置应该报告何种 PHP 错误
set_error_handler() - 设置用户自定义的错误处理函数
restore_error_handler() - 还原之前的错误处理函数
错误级别常量

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User Contributed Notes 5 notes

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someone at attbi dot com ¶

20 years ago

the idea is never to give out file names, line numbers, and cryptic codes to the user. Use trigger_error() after you used set_error_handler() to register your own callback function which either logs or emails the error codes to you, and echo a simple friendly message to the user.



And turn on a more verbose error handler function when you need to debug your scripts. In my init.php scripts I always have:



if (_DEBUG_) {

    set_error_handler ('debug_error_handler');

}

else {

    set_error_handler ('nice_error_handler');

}

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Howard Yeend ¶

14 years ago

trigger_error always reports the line and file that trigger_error was called on. Which isn't very useful.



eg:



main.php:

<?php

include('functions.php');

$x = 'test';

doFunction($x);

?>



functions.php:

<?php

function doFunction($var) {

if(is_numeric($var)) {

 /* do some stuff*/

} else {

 trigger_error('var must be numeric');

}

}

?>



will output "Notice: var must be numeric in functions.php on line 6"

whereas "Notice: var must be numeric in main.php on line 4" would be more useful



here's a function to do that:



<?php



function error($message, $level=E_USER_NOTICE) {

$caller = next(debug_backtrace());

trigger_error($message.' in <strong>'.$caller['function'].'</strong> called from <strong>'.$caller['file'].'</strong> on line <strong>'.$caller['line'].'</strong>'."\n<br />error handler", $level);

}

?>



So now in our example:



main.php:

<?php

include('functions.php');

$x = 'test';

doFunction($x);

?>



functions.php:

<?php

function doFunction($var) {

    if(is_numeric($var)) {

         /* do some stuff*/

    } else {

         error('var must be numeric');

    }

}



function error($message, $level=E_USER_NOTICE) {

    $caller = next(debug_backtrace());

    trigger_error($message.' in <strong>'.$caller['function'].'</strong> called from <strong>'.$caller['file'].'</strong> on line <strong>'.$caller['line'].'</strong>'."\n<br />error handler", $level);

}

?>



now outputs:



"Notice: var must be numeric in doFunction called from main.php on line 4"

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richard at 2006 dot atterer dot net ¶

18 years ago

Beware, trigger_error() is absolutely useless for transporting your own function's error messages in $php_errormsg:

ini_set('track_errors', TRUE);
function x() { trigger_error('MY ERROR'); }
@x();
echo "Error 1: \\"$php_errormsg\\"\\n";
@file_get_contents('/nonexisting');
echo "Error 2: \\"$php_errormsg\\"\\n";

This outputs:

Error 1: ""
Error 2: "failed to open stream: No such file or directory"

This behaviour is consistent with the description of $php_errormsg, which says that the variable will only be available within the scope in which the error occurred. The problem can be worked around with a custom error handler like the one below. However, I'm undecided whether changing the language in this way is good:

function errHandler($errno, $errstr, $errfile, $errline) {
  global $php_errormsg; $php_errormsg = $errstr;
}
set_error_handler('errHandler');

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aydin dot kn12 at gmail dot com ¶

9 years ago

If error_type is E_USER_ERROR then trigger_error throw FATAL ERROR and script stopped after this line.

<?php

$msg = 'This is the test message for echo';

trigger_error('Error message', E_USER_ERROR); // Script stopped after this line...

echo $msg; // This line does not appear...

?>

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PhpMyCoder ¶

13 years ago

For those of you looking to use your own file or line number in the error (possibly using debug_backtrace()) instead of the ones created by trigger_error(), here is a solution:
Create a custom function to handle E_USER_ERRORs that simply outputs the error type and message, while excluding the line number and file trigger_error() reports. You may also configure it to handle user warnings and notices if necessary (I did in the example below).

<?php
function error_handler($level, $message, $file, $line, $context) {
    //Handle user errors, warnings, and notices ourself
    if($level === E_USER_ERROR || $level === E_USER_WARNING || $level === E_USER_NOTICE) {
        echo '<strong>Error:</strong> '.$message;
        return(true); //And prevent the PHP error handler from continuing
    }
    return(false); //Otherwise, use PHP's error handler
}

function trigger_my_error($message, $level) {
    //Get the caller of the calling function and details about it
    $callee = next(debug_backtrace());
    //Trigger appropriate error
    trigger_error($message.' in <strong>'.$callee['file'].'</strong> on line <strong>'.$callee['line'].'</strong>', $level);
}

//Use our custom handler
set_error_handler('error_handler');

//-------------------------------
//Demo usage:
//-------------------------------
function abc($str) {
    if(!is_string($str)) {
        trigger_my_error('abc() expects parameter 1 to be a string', E_USER_ERROR);
    }
}

abc('Hello world!'); //Works
abc(18); //Error: abc() expects parameter 1 to be a string in [FILE].php on line 31
?>

This is a pretty simple concept and I'm sure most of you know this, but for those that don't, let it serve as a good example!

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