title: How to make PHP errors in text instead of HTML
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    <p><strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br>
    <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/8941243/how-can-i-tell-php-to-dump-exceptions-as-raw-text-instead-of-html">How can I tell PHP to dump exceptions as raw text instead of HTML?</a>  </p>
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  <p>I am trying to make a login script using C# and php and I plan on selling it as a 1 click install so I need it to be error proof. I am purposely trying to make mistakes in the setup, but whenever my php script has a mistake it has an HTML block output with the error when I just want a string output(refer to image).</p>
  
  <p>Heres the code I am using</p>
  
  <pre><code>// We will now set up our MySQL database login. The values should be self-explanatory. 
  $sqlhost = "localhost";
  $sqlusername = "unity";
  $sqlpassword = "mypass123";
  
  //we will now connect to our database
  $sqlcon = mysql_connect($sqlhost, $sqlusername, $sqlpassword) or die("Could not connect to database: " . mysql_error());
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>When I have all the information it works fine and the rest of the code runs without an error. But if my password is wrong or the user doesn't have access then I get this error</p>
  
  <p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/G4Ev0.jpg" alt="Error I am trying to avoid"></p>
  
  <p>I am retrieved the information from this page and it needs to be sent as plan text to be displayed properly. What I mean by this is that any HTML tags like <code>&lt;div&gt;, &lt;br&gt;, &lt;a&gt;,</code> etc and just generally makes the text output look bad. I want this to just display the text at the bottom the page because that logs the error itself. I dont need it to log twice and I dont need it to be formatted fancy. I need it in plain readable text so that if a user has an error they can send me the short text and I will be able to walk them through the fix. </p>