I ended up tracking it down to what appears to be a bug in PHP 5.2 where a call to new SplFileInfo()
strangely resets the fatal error information that normally exists inside error_get_last()
.
My fix was to tweak Cake's default App::shutdown()
function by moving the _checkFatalError()
call up above the Cache::write()
calls.
So the result was this...
public static function shutdown() {
// For some weird reason on PHP 5.2 the SplFileInfo call made in Cache::write
// resets error_get_last() which means we can't trap fatal/parse errors.
// Small workaround is to check for errors *before* doing the caching thing
self::_checkFatalError();
if (self::$_cacheChange) {
Cache::write('file_map', array_filter(self::$_map), '_cake_core_');
}
if (self::$_objectCacheChange) {
Cache::write('object_map', self::$_objects, '_cake_core_');
}
// self::_checkFatalError();
}
Perhaps it may help someone else out there someday. :-)