[php] error_reporting(E_ALL) does not produce error

This is my php script-

<?php
  error_reporting(E_ALL);
  echo('catch this -> ' ;. $thisdoesnotexist);
?>

Which obviously should show something if it were to be executed.

All I see is an empty page. Why is error_reporting(E_ALL) not working?

<?php
  ini_set("display_errors", "1");
  error_reporting(E_ALL);
  echo('catch this -> ' ;. $thisdoesnotexist);
?>

Does not help either. All I get is an empty page.

I've been to php.ini and set display_errors = On and display_startup_errors = On. Nothing happens.

you can try to put this in your php.ini:

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

In php.ini file also you can set error_reporting();

In your php.ini file check for display_errors. I think it is off.

<?php
error_reporting(E_ALL);
ini_set('display_errors', TRUE);
ini_set('display_startup_errors', TRUE);

In your php.ini file check for display_errors. If it is off, then make it on as below:

display_errors = On

It should display warnings/notices/errors .

Please read this

http://www.php.net/manual/en/errorfunc.configuration.php#ini.error-reporting

That error is a parse error. The parser is throwing it while going through the code, trying to understand it. No code is being executed yet in the parsing stage. Because of that it hasn't yet executed the error_reporting line, therefore the error reporting settings aren't changed yet.

You cannot change error reporting settings (or really, do anything) in a file with syntax errors.

turn on display errors in your ini

http://www.php.net/manual/en/errorfunc.configuration.php#ini.display-errors