How do I get PHP errors to display?

php error-handling syntax-error error-reporting
Abs picture Abs · Jun 27, 2009 · Viewed 3M times · Source

I have checked my PHP ini file (php.ini) and display_errors is set and also error reporting is E_ALL. I have restarted my Apache webserver.

I have even put these lines at the top of my script, and it doesn't even catch simple parse errors. For example, I declare variables with a "$" and I don't close statements";". But all my scripts show a blank page on these errors, but I want to actually see the errors in my browser output. 

error_reporting(E_ALL);
ini_set('display_errors', 1);

What is left to do?

Answer

Fancy John picture Fancy John · Jan 29, 2014

This always works for me:

ini_set('display_errors', '1');
ini_set('display_startup_errors', '1');
error_reporting(E_ALL);

However, this doesn't make PHP to show parse errors - the only way to show those errors is to modify your php.ini with this line:

display_errors = on

(if you don't have access to php.ini, then putting this line in .htaccess might work too):

php_flag display_errors 1

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