How to catch all PHP errors?

As of PHP 8 the best way to catch any and all Exceptions is to catch the Throwable interface which "is the base interface for any object that can be thrown via a throw statement". So your code would look something like this.

try {
    # code...
} catch (\Throwable $th) {
    # code...
}

This makes almost all errors become catchable instance of ErrorException:

set_error_handler(function($errno, $errstr, $errfile, $errline ){
    throw new ErrorException($errstr, $errno, 0, $errfile, $errline);
});

use it before of the code that can give errors, for instances at the very top of your php file or in a common header included

Limits: Severest errors (PHP engine, server, syntax) cannot be handled with a user defined function: E_ERROR, E_PARSE, E_CORE_ERROR, E_CORE_WARNING, E_COMPILE_ERROR, E_COMPILE_WARNING, and most of E_STRICT raised in the file where set_error_handler() is called compromise it.

But, if syntax is correct and server don't broke, these errors should not appear.

If needed, you could workaround it with the register_shutdown_function() and error_get_last()

Try launch this web page, you should see "Message: Division by Zero".

// Set Error Handler

set_error_handler (
    function($errno, $errstr, $errfile, $errline) {
        throw new ErrorException($errstr, $errno, 0, $errfile, $errline);     
    }
);

// Trigger an exception in a try block

try {
    $a = 3/0;
    echo $a;
}
catch(Exception $e) {
    echo 'Message: ' .$e->getMessage();
}

I quite like the error handling from the kohana framework. You'd have to do a bit of work to pull it out though.

http://kohanaframework.org/

It will allow you to do error logging to a file and email a recipient. It also enables you to redirect to your friendly error page.