How to disable PHP Error reporting in CodeIgniter?

Question

Here is the typical structure of new Codeigniter project:

- application/
- system/
- user_guide/
- index.php <- this is the file you need to change

I usually use this code in my CI index.php. Just change local_server_name to the name of your local webserver.

With this code you can deploy your site to your production server without changing index.php each time.

// Domain-based environment
if ($_SERVER['SERVER_NAME'] == 'local_server_name') {
    define('ENVIRONMENT', 'development');
} else {
    define('ENVIRONMENT', 'production');
}

/*
 *---------------------------------------------------------------
 * ERROR REPORTING
 *---------------------------------------------------------------
 *
 * Different environments will require different levels of error reporting.
 * By default development will show errors but testing and live will hide them.
 */

if (defined('ENVIRONMENT')) {
    switch (ENVIRONMENT) {
        case 'development':
            error_reporting(E_ALL);
            break;
        case 'testing':
        case 'production':
            error_reporting(0);
            ini_set('display_errors', 0);  
            break;
        default:
            exit('The application environment is not set correctly.');
    }
}

Change CI index.php file to:

if ($_SERVER['SERVER_NAME'] == 'local_server_name') {
    define('ENVIRONMENT', 'development');
} else {
    define('ENVIRONMENT', 'production');
}

if (defined('ENVIRONMENT')){
    switch (ENVIRONMENT){
        case 'development':
            error_reporting(E_ALL);
        break;

        case 'testing':
        case 'production':
            error_reporting(0);
        break;

        default:
            exit('The application environment is not set correctly.');
    }
}

IF PHP errors are off, but any MySQL errors are still going to show, turn these off in the /config/database.php file. Set the db_debug option to false:

$db['default']['db_debug'] = FALSE; 

Also, you can use active_group as development and production to match the environment https://www.codeigniter.com/user_guide/database/configuration.html

$active_group = 'development';


$db['development']['hostname'] = 'localhost';
$db['development']['username'] = '---';
$db['development']['password'] = '---';
$db['development']['database'] = '---';
$db['development']['dbdriver'] = 'mysql';
$db['development']['dbprefix'] = '';
$db['development']['pconnect'] = TRUE;

$db['development']['db_debug'] = TRUE;

$db['development']['cache_on'] = FALSE;
$db['development']['cachedir'] = '';
$db['development']['char_set'] = 'utf8';
$db['development']['dbcollat'] = 'utf8_general_ci';
$db['development']['swap_pre'] = '';
$db['development']['autoinit'] = TRUE;
$db['development']['stricton'] = FALSE;



$db['production']['hostname'] = 'localhost';
$db['production']['username'] = '---';
$db['production']['password'] = '---';
$db['production']['database'] = '---';
$db['production']['dbdriver'] = 'mysql';
$db['production']['dbprefix'] = '';
$db['production']['pconnect'] = TRUE;

$db['production']['db_debug'] = FALSE;

$db['production']['cache_on'] = FALSE;
$db['production']['cachedir'] = '';
$db['production']['char_set'] = 'utf8';
$db['production']['dbcollat'] = 'utf8_general_ci';
$db['production']['swap_pre'] = '';
$db['production']['autoinit'] = TRUE;
$db['production']['stricton'] = FALSE;