I was working and thinking, as per usual, and figured it might be a handy thing to implement a type that acted as a singleton where I could put a bunch of non-fatal errors into. This way I can have a stack of debug messages and handle them however I want, without try/except. This is for things like query errors, object initialization faults, and the like. Obviously in a finished product the last thing you want is a die statement triggering, and a client wondering how to get back.

Any suggestions for how I could set an object such as this up? Or should I even use an object? I just came up with this recently, so I figured I'd get input on this.

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You could expand it into, in a general sense, a log/debug type of object which stores (optionally different levels if you like) messages, debug data, 'errors', etc. You could use it with the set_exception/error_handler functions if you headed more along the errors route.

I could do the exception handlers, but for things like malformed queries I think that's a bit much. But I also don't know that I want an array of messages stored in the database object itself either. I think I want a little separation there, but I'm not sure how to handle it with a singleton/registry style access method.

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Perhaps you could try extending the Exception class.

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I could. Though then I'd have to have an error container, override the exception handler and such. Is that better than just making a sort of custom logger?

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Look what I found. I wrote some time ago some sort of logger (for fun, to be honest). You can use it if you find it useful.

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That looks helpful, thanks Xenon. I'll let you know if I use it.

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