How to make PHP errors in text instead of HTML
error-handling, login-script, php
Solution
Whether PHP displays plain text or html errors depends on your php.ini configuration:
`html_errors` `boolean`
Turn off HTML tags in error messages. The new format for HTML errors produces clickable messages that direct the user to a page describing the error or function in causing the error. These references are affected by docref_root and docref_ext.
The setting is settable as `PHP_INI_ALL`, which means anywhere, including your script. So to disable html errors do
ini_set('html_errors', false);
at the beginning of your script.
Problem
Possible Duplicate: How can I tell PHP to dump exceptions as raw text instead of HTML? I am trying to make a login script using C# and php and I plan on selling it as a 1 click install so I need it to be error proof. I am purposely trying to make mistakes in the setup, but whenever my php script has a mistake it has an HTML block output with the error when I just want a string output(refer to image). Heres the code I am using ``` // We will now set up our MySQL database login. The values should be self-explanatory. $sqlhost = "localhost"; $sqlusername = "unity"; $sqlpassword = "mypass123"; //we will now connect to our database $sqlcon = mysql_connect($sqlhost, $sqlusername, $sqlpassword) or die("Could not connect to database: " . mysql_error()); ``` When I have all the information it works fine and the rest of the code runs without an error. But if my password is wrong or the user doesn't have access then I get this error I am retrieved the information from this page and it needs to be sent as plan text to be displayed properly. What I mean by this is that any HTML tags like `<div>, <br>, <a>,` etc and just generally makes the text output look bad. I want this to just display the text at the bottom the page because that logs the error itself. I dont need it to log twice and I dont need it to be formatted fancy. I need it in plain readable text so that if a user has an error they can send me the short text and I will be able to walk them through the fix.