How do I catch a PHP fatal (`E_ERROR`) error?

Question

I can use set_error_handler() to catch most PHP errors, but it doesn\'t work for fatal (E_ERROR) errors, such as calling a function that doesn\'t e

Answer 1

Well, it seems possible to catch fatal errors some other way :)

ob_start('fatal_error_handler');

function fatal_error_handler($buffer){
    $error = error_get_last();
    if($error['type'] == 1){
        // Type, message, file, line
        $newBuffer='

                      
                      
                        

                             Fatal Error 
                             

                               
Line ' . $error['line'] . '
                               
Message ' . $error['message'] . '
                               
File ' . $error['file'] . '
                             

                              Back 
                        
                      ';

        return $newBuffer;
    }
    return $buffer;
}