Yii silently crashes

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Hi,

I’m new to Yii, it’s great but one thing makes me really angry. When I made a mistake, which is not syntax error or null reference (e.g. I use function that does not exist) - the Yii just stops. If it’s in view script - its trackable, because I can see where HTML stops rendering. But when it comes to controller or model - I receive 500 Internal Server Error.

I generated application with yiic command. I have the YII_DEBUG set to true and the YII_TRACE_LEVEL to 3.

How to fix this?

2

can you post the complete content of your index.php?

You should get a very nice stacktrace of what happended instead of error 500 when YII_DEBUG is true.

3

Here: http: / / pasteit.com/17828 (I’m not allowed to post links yet).

I get the pretty debug for these errors on both localhost and my hosting (code in actionIndex in the SiteController):

  • $this->unknownMethod()

  • $this->nothing->getSomenthing()

I get 500 Internal Server Error on hosting and pure PHP error on localhost, when:

  • do the syntax error (e.g. forget ";")

  • call to undefined function (e.g. undefinedFunction())

I actually solved this problem with


error_reporting(E_ALL);

ini_set('display_errors', 'On');

in my index.php, but I only receive a pure PHP error in both localhost and hosting. Is this normal?

4

Yes, it’s OK. There’s no good way to catch such errors in PHP.

5

I was hunting through the web trying to understand why this bloody framework doesn’t give me a helpful error before crashing! It’s really annoying

thanks to vojtek above. Thanks error reporting setting is some consolation.

6

In Yii2 we’ve solved catching all kind of errors, even the ones that normally aren’t catchable so it should be a big step forward in this regard.