How to return an HTTP 500 code on any error, no matter what

Question

I\'m writing an authentication script in PHP, to be called as an API, that needs to return 200only in the case that it approves the request, and403(Forbid

Answer 1

On the php page for set_error_handler() you can find a comment by smp at ncoastsoft dot com posted on 08-Sep-2003 10:28 which exlpains how to even catch fatal errors (which you can normally not catch with a custom error handler. I changed the code for you needs:

error_reporting(E_ALL);
ini_set('display_errors', 'on');

function fatal_error_handler($buffer) {
    header('HTTP/1.1 500 Internal Server Error');
    exit(0);
}

function handle_error ($errno, $errstr, $errfile, $errline){
    header('HTTP/1.1 500 Internal Server Error');
    exit(0);
}

ob_start("fatal_error_handler");
set_error_handler("handle_error");

//would normally cause a fatal error, but instead our output handler will be called allowing us to handle the error.
somefunction();
ob_end_flush();

This shold catch the fatal error of the non existing function. It than returns a 500 and stops the execution of the rest of the script.