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Bug #66860 Stack traces are unreadable
Submitted: 2014-03-09 13:00 UTC Modified: 2014-03-09 17:30 UTC
From: eldmannen+php at gmail dot com Assigned:
Status: Not a bug Package: *General Issues
PHP Version: Irrelevant OS:
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [2014-03-09 13:00 UTC] eldmannen+php at gmail dot com 
Description:
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The stack traces are unreadable.
They already contain some markup such as <b> but are still pretty much unreadable due to all text on one line.

Wrap the stack trace in <pre> tags, or use <br> at the end of the lines.

Test script:
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<?php

function a() {
    b();
}

function b() {
    c();
}

function c() {
    throw new Exception;
}

a();

Expected result:
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Fatal error: Uncaught exception 'Exception' in /var/www/test.php:12
Stack trace:
#0 /var/www/test.php(8): c()
#1 /var/www/test.php(4): b()
#2 /var/www/test.php(15): a()
#3 {main}
  thrown in /var/www/test.php on line 12


Actual result:
--------------
Fatal error: Uncaught exception 'Exception' in /var/www/test.php:12 Stack trace: #0 /var/www/test.php(8): c() #1 /var/www/test.php(4): b() #2 /var/www/test.php(15): a() #3 {main} thrown in /var/www/test.php on line 12

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 [2014-03-09 16:40 UTC] phpmpan at mpan dot pl 
The stack trace is properly formatted and broken into lines. You don't see it probably because you view it in a browser which treats this plain-text data as HTML and strips newlines.
 [2014-03-09 16:57 UTC] rasmus@php.net
-Status: Open +Status: Not a bug
 [2014-03-09 16:57 UTC] rasmus@php.net 
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 [2014-03-09 17:11 UTC] eldmannen+php at gmail dot com 
@phpmpan,
Yes, and that would be the correct behaviour if I used php-cli, but I used php-cgi.

If I was not supposed to view in a web browser, then why does it contain markup such as <b> already?
 [2014-03-09 17:21 UTC] rasmus@php.net 
Use error_prepend_string/error_append_string in your ini or in an ini_set() in your script if this bothers you.
 [2014-03-09 17:27 UTC] eldmannen+php at gmail dot com 
That would be prepend/append <pre> tags around all the errors, not only the stack trace.

I see no reason why not to wrap the stack trace in <pre> or end each stack trace line with <br>.

Else, I think the error message should have <b> removed to be consistent.

What reason is there not to improve the markup?
Either improve the markup or remove the markup.
 [2014-03-09 17:30 UTC] eldmannen+php at gmail dot com 
By the way, error_prepend_string and error_append_string ought to be deprecated and removed.

Does it really belong in the ini file?
Is there any reason it should be there?
 
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