The team that has brought you the infamous PHP ElePHPants in the past is back with another round - the 6th generation of the cuddly PHP mascot in both traditional blue and pink.

April 19, 2011 PHPère is happy to show you the first pictures of two premature elePHPant the 6th generation of PHP. As you can see ... ElePHPant the blue, is in great shape and has found its new home very pleasant

These are shots of the first turnouts of this latest batch and the rest will follow in June/July of this year. Those that have already ordered them will be contacted soon and, if you're interested in picking up some of your own, send them an email for complete instructions.

If you've been trying to get your hands on one of the cuddly little mascots for PHP (the elePHPant) but haven't managed to yet, there's some good news! Another run of the fuzzy little animals is being done (the 6th) and this time they're offering something new - pink elePHPants.

As we are now out of every of the 5 first generation of the elephpants, it is time to start a 6th. You'll find here all information to include yourself. [...] Fill in your elephpants wishes. We do not need any payement now. We will contact you directly before starting the generation for the actual payement.

Their schedule hopes to end the pre-order process on December 20th (just three days away) and to strat production on these pre-orders by January 10th. The end results would be shipped out for delivery in April 2011. If you'd like to lay claim to some of your own, go over to the order form and select the size (large/small) and the color (blue/pink) and fill in the contact info. Unfortunately, because of production restrictions, single elePHPants cannot be ordered, so consider getting together with a local user group and all chipping in for a box!

On the SitePoint PHP blog today, Maarten Manders talks about some updates he made to the "pretty blue screen" created originally by Harry Fuecks to handle more error types.

I modified it to handle errors as well and added some features which make it useful in productive systems as well: Error logging, Error Mailing, and Configuration.

The script logs or mails unique errors only once to prevent your log file or mailbox to be spammed with the same error again and again. It also takes care of the error level including shutup operator. It’s a little bit hacky but did well on our dev servers (where errors tend to happen) in the past few weeks.

The link to grab this latest version of a handy bit of functionality is here - two different files, one for the error handler and one for the exception handler. He also includes a sample code snippet of how to use it.

On the SitePoint PHP blog today, Maarten Manders talks about some updates he made to the "pretty blue screen" created originally by Harry Fuecks to handle more error types.

I modified it to handle errors as well and added some features which make it useful in productive systems as well: Error logging, Error Mailing, and Configuration.

The script logs or mails unique errors only once to prevent your log file or mailbox to be spammed with the same error again and again. It also takes care of the error level including shutup operator. It’s a little bit hacky but did well on our dev servers (where errors tend to happen) in the past few weeks.

The link to grab this latest version of a handy bit of functionality is here - two different files, one for the error handler and one for the exception handler. He also includes a sample code snippet of how to use it.