How do I turn off PHP Notices?

Question

Notice: Constant DIR_FS_CATALOG already defined

I've already commented out display_errors in php.ini, but is not working.

How do I make PHP to not output such things to browsers?

UPDATE

I put display_errors = Off there but it's still reporting such notices,

Is this an issue with PHP 5.3?

Reporting numerous Call Stack too..

Answer 1

I found this trick out recently. Whack an @ at the start of a line that may produce an warning/error.

As if by magic, they dissapear.

Answer 2

For the command line php, set

error_reporting = E_ALL & ~E_NOTICE

in /etc/php5/cli/php.ini

command php execution then ommits the notices.

Answer 3

<?php

// Turn off all error reporting
error_reporting(0);

// Report simple running errors
error_reporting(E_ERROR | E_WARNING | E_PARSE);

// Reporting E_NOTICE can be good too (to report uninitialized
// variables or catch variable name misspellings ...)
error_reporting(E_ERROR | E_WARNING | E_PARSE | E_NOTICE);

// Report all errors except E_NOTICE
error_reporting(E_ALL & ~E_NOTICE);

// Report all PHP errors (see changelog)
error_reporting(E_ALL);

// Report all PHP errors
error_reporting(-1);

// Same as error_reporting(E_ALL);
ini_set('error_reporting', E_ALL);

?>

source http://php.net/manual/en/function.error-reporting.php

Answer 4

I prefer to not set the error_reporting inside my code. But in one case, a legacy product, there are so many notices, that they must be hidden.

So I used following snippet to set the serverside configured value for error_reporting and subtract the E_NOTICEs.

error_reporting(error_reporting() & ~E_NOTICE);

Now the error reporting setting can further be configured in php.ini or .htaccess. Only notices will always be disabled.

Answer 5

by not causing the errors:

defined('DIR_FS_CATALOG') || define('DIR_FS_CATALOG', 'whatever');

If you really have to, then change error reporting using error_reporting() to E_ALL^E_NOTICE.

Answer 6

You are looking for:

php -d error_reporting="E_ERROR | E_WARNING | E_PARSE"