How to stop PHP from logging PHP Notice errors

Question

I'm trying to not log notice errors, which are being written to an error log file on my server. I've tried (at the top of my index.php):

ini_set('display_errors', 0);  
error_reporting(E_ALL ^ E_NOTICE);

But I'm still getting PHP notice errors in said error log file.

I'm on a shared hosting environment, so I can't edit my php.ini file.

phpinfo() tells me:

- Version 5.2.12
- error_reporting 6143
- error_log error_log
- safe_mode Off

Answer 1

Are you getting Notice's or "USER" Notice's in your log?

To disable both use:

error_reporting(E_ALL & ~E_NOTICE & ~E_USER_NOTICE);

Answer 2

you can change the error reporting level to something different

error_reporting(E_ERROR | E_WARNING | E_PARSE);

see http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.error-reporting.php for more information

Answer 3

Try doing:

error_reporting(E_ALL & ~E_NOTICE);

The error_reporting() directive will always works (PHP_INI_ALL).

Are you sure you're not including any library that changes your error reporting level?

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Do error_reporting(0); and then do this:

var_dump(error_reporting());

What is the output?

Answer 4

If you're on an Apache server, try setting the value in a .htaccess file. The general format is:

php_flag  log_errors on
php_value error_log  /path/to/error.log
php_value error_reporting integer

where integer is the value you get from running something like:

echo E_ALL & ~E_NOTICE; // prints 30711

More info here:

http://perishablepress.com/press/2008/01/14/advanced-php-error-handling-via-htaccess/