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14 years ago
For those of you looking to use your own file or line number in the error (possibly using debug_backtrace()) instead of the ones created by trigger_error(), here is a solution:
Create a custom function to handle E_USER_ERRORs that simply outputs the error type and message, while excluding the line number and file trigger_error() reports. You may also configure it to handle user warnings and notices if necessary (I did in the example below).

<?php
function error_handler($level, $message, $file, $line, $context) {
    //Handle user errors, warnings, and notices ourself
    if($level === E_USER_ERROR || $level === E_USER_WARNING || $level === E_USER_NOTICE) {
        echo '<strong>Error:</strong> '.$message;
        return(true); //And prevent the PHP error handler from continuing
    }
    return(false); //Otherwise, use PHP's error handler
}

function trigger_my_error($message, $level) {
    //Get the caller of the calling function and details about it
    $callee = next(debug_backtrace());
    //Trigger appropriate error
    trigger_error($message.' in <strong>'.$callee['file'].'</strong> on line <strong>'.$callee['line'].'</strong>', $level);
}

//Use our custom handler
set_error_handler('error_handler');

//-------------------------------
//Demo usage:
//-------------------------------
function abc($str) {
    if(!is_string($str)) {
        trigger_my_error('abc() expects parameter 1 to be a string', E_USER_ERROR);
    }
}

abc('Hello world!'); //Works
abc(18); //Error: abc() expects parameter 1 to be a string in [FILE].php on line 31
?>

This is a pretty simple concept and I'm sure most of you know this, but for those that don't, let it serve as a good example!
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