Generate Errors

Ever think to yourself, "I wish I had a way to crash my site?" "Do I know exactly how my server will respond in error conditions?" "I haven't seen a E_STRICT error, I wonder what that looks like?" Wonder no longer.

Generate Errors is a module that provides an user interface for developer to manually generate errors. A developer can intentionally:

• Select or manually specify HTTP status code in the response header and optionally exit
• Throw an uncaught PHP Exception
• Exhaust memory in an infinite loop
• Trigger a PHP error level, including E_ERROR, E_WARNING, E_PARSE, E_NOTICE, E_USER_ERROR, E_USER_WARNING, E_USER_NOTICE, E_STRICT, and E_RECOVERABLE_ERROR
• Benchmark PHP execution in error conditions

The selected error will occur only once, allowing a developer or systems administrator to test system behaviors, such as custom error messages from the server and so forth. A status message will be shown describing the generated error, and a log message will be recorded in watchdog prior to the triggered error to document who did what and when.

This module should not be deployed in any public-facing environment and is intended for development and testing purposes only.