PHP fatal errors come back as status code 200 to the HTTP client. How can I make it return a status code 500 (Internal server error)?
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Since PHP >= 5.4
http_response_code(500);
echo json_encode( [ 'success' => false , 'message' => 'Crazy thing just happened!' ]);
exit();
Please set the httpCode before echo.
It is not possible to handle PHP E_ERROR in any way according to the PHP documentation: http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.set-error-handler.php
Nor is is possible to handle "E_PARSE, E_CORE_ERROR, E_CORE_WARNING, E_COMPILE_ERROR, E_COMPILE_WARNING, and most of E_STRICT" according to that link.
You CAN provide a handler for the other error, warning, and notices including E_USER_ERROR, but that's really not as useful as it sounds since this error only gets thrown intentionally by the programmer with trigger_error().
And of course you can catch any Exception (even the ones thrown by the native PHP functions).
I agree that this is a problem. Servers should NOT return 200 OK when application code crashes and burns.
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