New in Symfony 2.2: Nice fatal error display

December 6, 2012 • Published by Fabien Potencier

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Contributed by
Konstantin Myakshin
in #5863.

Symfony displays a nice screen whenever a problem occurs in your code like when an exception is thrown or a PHP warning is triggered. This eases the debugging of problems as the screen gives you the issue, the location of the error, and the full stack trace. And if you setup the ide option, you can even click on any file to open it in your regular IDE or text editor at the right line. That's really nice.

But as of Symfony 2.2, this feature is even nicer as fatal errors are also nicely displayed in your browser like any other errors.

Here is how a fatal error is displayed in Symfony 2.0 and 2.1:

And here is the same fatal error displayed from a Symfony 2.2 application:

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Comments

Loïc Vernet Certified said on Dec 6, 2012 at 11:31

Far better indeed. ;)

Hugo Hamon Certified said on Dec 6, 2012 at 12:00

Great addition!

Filip Procházka said on Dec 6, 2012 at 12:15

Hi, and this is what exception, fatal error, or regular error looks like with Nette Framework Debugger http://goo.gl/83pCq

http://hosiplan.com/nette/exception.html

Luis Cordova said on Dec 6, 2012 at 12:28

superb i did not know you could open the error on your favorite ide, going to try that now with phpstorm, i hope it does not open an instance with every click or is not too heavy

good job

Daniel LIma said on Dec 6, 2012 at 12:28

NICE ONE!

Fernando Mantoan said on Dec 6, 2012 at 12:37

Nice!

Konstantin Myakshin said on Dec 6, 2012 at 14:41

I've plans add possibility log this types of errors and send emails about it. If you have suggestions how to do this - please describe they here https://github.com/symfony/symfony/issues/2042 .