How to hide display of PHP errors?

When I have PHP typos on live site, people is able to see the full detailed error message with full file path on the site. How do I suppress this display? Via Webhost? Or via PHP code?

http://php.net/error_reporting

error_reporting(0);

Hmmm. The documentation does say that this is how to turn off error reporting. But when purposely put in this syntax error...



My browser is still displaying syntax error at line XX of file XXXXX.

Could it be that it also needs to be set in the PHP config?

Odd.

The problem is, you often don't have access to the php.ini file if you're using shared hosting.

If you've got access to php.ini
Some shared hosting, such as Godaddy gives each account their own php.ini files (php.ini and php5.ini) where most settings can be altered.

Just a silly question. Why are you not handling the errors in your code gracefully?

Thanks, altering the php.ini worked perfectly.


That's because I have not quite learned that yet. But I will soon.

The reason setting error reporting to 0 didn't work for your syntax error is because a syntax error occurs when the compiler encounters something that isn't correct. Since the compiler had the error, your code was never executed, and thus error reporting was left to your ini setting.

You should turn on error logging and keep up on the log. Otherwise you might find yourself in a worse situation than if errors were displayed.

Good explanation. Understood.