How to enable php display_errors?

[seodaikaads]

I cannot enable the display_errors setting in PHP. What could be the reason?

I'm using virtual box with PHP 5.3 installed with apache2 running. I have tried everything to get display errors but nothing seems to work.

I have set php_flag display_errors on in my htaccess file and enabled it directly in the php.ini file

I tried the below two format
1. Code: display_errors = 1
2. Code:display_errors = On

[ScriptMan]

I think my ini file is 5.4 but the two should be about the same.

PHP Code:

; The following are all the settings which are different in either the production
; or development versions of the INIs with respect to PHP's default behavior.
; Please see the actual settings later in the document for more details as to why
; we recommend these changes in PHP's behavior.

; allow_call_time_pass_reference
;   Default Value: On
;   Development Value: Off
;   Production Value: Off

; display_errors
;   Default Value: On
;   Development Value: On
;   Production Value: Off

; display_startup_errors
;   Default Value: Off
;   Development Value: On
;   Production Value: Off

; error_reporting
;   Default Value: E_ALL & ~E_NOTICE & ~E_STRICT & ~E_DEPRECATED
;   Development Value: E_ALL
;   Production Value: E_ALL & ~E_DEPRECATED & ~E_STRICT 


and further down in the ini file:

PHP Code:

Error Level Constants:
; E_ALL             - All errors and warnings (includes E_STRICT as of PHP 6.0.0)
; E_ERROR           - fatal run-time errors
; E_RECOVERABLE_ERROR  - almost fatal run-time errors
; E_WARNING         - run-time warnings (non-fatal errors)
; E_PARSE           - compile-time parse errors
; E_NOTICE          - run-time notices (these are warnings which often result
;                     from a bug in your code, but it's possible that it was
;                     intentional (e.g., using an uninitialized variable and
;                     relying on the fact it's automatically initialized to an
;                     empty string)
; E_STRICT          - run-time notices, enable to have PHP suggest changes
;                     to your code which will ensure the best interoperability
;                     and forward compatibility of your code
; E_CORE_ERROR      - fatal errors that occur during PHP's initial startup
; E_CORE_WARNING    - warnings (non-fatal errors) that occur during PHP's
;                     initial startup
; E_COMPILE_ERROR   - fatal compile-time errors
; E_COMPILE_WARNING - compile-time warnings (non-fatal errors)
; E_USER_ERROR      - user-generated error message
; E_USER_WARNING    - user-generated warning message
; E_USER_NOTICE     - user-generated notice message
; E_DEPRECATED      - warn about code that will not work in future versions
;                     of PHP
; E_USER_DEPRECATED - user-generated deprecation warnings
;
; Common Values:
;   E_ALL (Show all errors, warnings and notices including coding standards.)
;   E_ALL & ~E_NOTICE  (Show all errors, except for notices)
;   E_ALL & ~E_NOTICE & ~E_STRICT  (Show all errors, except for notices and coding standards warnings.)
;   E_COMPILE_ERROR|E_RECOVERABLE_ERROR|E_ERROR|E_CORE_ERROR  (Show only errors)
; Default Value: E_ALL & ~E_NOTICE & ~E_STRICT & ~E_DEPRECATED
; Development Value: E_ALL
; Production Value: E_ALL & ~E_DEPRECATED & ~E_STRICT
; http://php.net/error-reporting
;error_reporting = E_ALL | E_STRICT ; remarked 2-1-13
error_reporting = E_ERROR | E_RECOVERABLE_ERROR 


Even if error reporting is correctly set on there are routines that might be added to scripts that suppresses them. This page provides some information about that: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/...errors-php-5-3

[J. H. Rasmussen]

Adding this PHP-code to the beginning of a PHP-script will display errors for that file(if the warning/error occur after those two lines has been processed by PHP):

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

Also remember if you make changes to the php.ini-file then you may need to restart the server for the changes to take affect.

[AndriusDono]

To make things even more clear, you should restart apache/nginx (or other web server), but not your whole server (reboot command).

[aesthetiqclinic]

You should go to php.ini file in the server that if you have local server to uncomment that error displaying to see the errors.