Comments on: Turn off error reporting on your production site

By: Voyagerfan5761

Voyagerfan5761 — Wed, 15 Jun 2011 21:31:58 +0000

Something in this WordPress installation is converting the quotes in the code sample to “smart quotes”, causing the code to not function if copied-and-pasted.

Also, the initial call to set the error reporting level is unnecessary. AFAIK, turning that off also prevents errors from reaching the server logs, where they are wanted.

By: Mark McLaren

Mark McLaren — Fri, 03 Jun 2011 06:06:44 +0000

Thank you for providing a quick fix for a vexing problem. I can’t believe I hadn’t seen this fix before!

Note: For any PHP hacks out there like myself, at first when I copied and pasted into wp-config.php the two lines of code you offer above, it did not work. The reason was that there are angled (aka “smart”) single quotation marks around ‘display_errors’. I changed these to straight single quotes (like this: ‘display_errors’) and it worked like a charm.

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turn off wordpress php error reporting « Difficiles Nugae Labs — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 07:51:04 +0000

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By: Larry Levenson

Larry Levenson — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 04:44:52 +0000

Thanks, Antonie! Nice, succinct article about turning off error messages on production sites. I’m implementing it now.

By: David Hood

David Hood — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 01:10:52 +0000

PHP configuration cannot be modified fue to the due to the provider right?

By: Ben

Ben — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 13:45:46 +0000

I am assuming it depends on your web host, mine needed the display errors command before it stopped showing them.

By: mr.The

mr.The — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 21:10:10 +0000

Why is “display_errors”?
error_reporting already turned off all error reporting.

By: Firefly

Firefly — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 22:48:02 +0000

Great, thanks just what I was looking for, tried error_reporting(E_ERROR | E_PARSE); but it did not work, yours works on 2.7.3 Beta 3 as well.

Firefly

By: Antonie Potgieter

Antonie Potgieter — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 13:23:50 +0000

@taylan

Its a pleasure. I’m glad you found it useful.

By: taylan

taylan — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 12:01:06 +0000

I usually used this “error_reporting(0);” I dont think add this,
“@ini_set(‘display_errors’, 0);” thank you.