How to have PHP display errors I ve added ini set and error reporting but just gives 500 on errors

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So  I don t really have any errors in my current web page  but I want to be able to see an error when they pop up  instead of the HTTP 500 error page  I googled around a bit and thought adding these two lines would fix everything   ini set  display errors    On    error reporting E ALL     NOTE  I don t have access to the php ini file  as I m using my school account s server   So I introduced a bug  no semicolon after  buggy  like so at the top of my page     lt  php  ini set  display errors    On    error reporting E ALL    buggy   x   4   2        However  I just get a Server error    The website encountered an error while retrieving http   mywebpage com   It may be down for maintenance or configured incorrectly    Any ideas   EDIT   I ve reconfigured my code    lt  php  include once  database errorSettings php     gt   lt  php    buggy    whoops  x   4   2        errorSettings php is the following    lt  php     ini set  display errors    On        error reporting E ALL     gt    But it still doesn t work    wrong way to reconfigure

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Syntax errors is not checked easily in external servers, just runtime errors.

What I do? Just like you, I use

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

However, before run I check syntax errors in a PHP file using an online PHP syntax checker.

The best, IMHO is PHP Code Checker

I copy all the source code, paste inside the main box and click the Analyze button.

It is not the most practical method, but the 2 procedures are complementary and it solves the problem completely

User · Answer

Just write a following code on top of PHP file   ini set  display errors   on

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What you have is a parse error  Those are thrown before any code is executed  A PHP file needs to be parsed in its entirety before any code in it can be executed  If there s a parse error in the file where you re setting your error levels  they won t have taken effect by the time the error is thrown   Either break your files up into smaller parts  like setting the error levels in one file and then includeing another file which contains the actual code  and errors   or set the error levels outside PHP using php ini or  htaccess directives

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Adding to what deceze said above  This is a parse error  so in order to debug a parse error  create a new file in the root named debugSyntax php  Put this in it    lt  php             SYNTAX ERROR CHECK                 error reporting E ALL   ini set  display errors   On       replace  pageToTest php  with the file path that you want to test   include  pageToTest php        gt    Run the debugSyntax php page and it will display parse errors from the page that you chose to test

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I have had this problem when using PHP5 4 and Plesk 11 5  Somehow  the error reporting and display error settings in the Plesk domain configuration page were completely overriding any local settings in  htaccess or the PHP scripts  I have not found a way to prevent this happening  so use the Plesk settings to turn error reporting on and off   You may have settings in your php ini that prevents the local site from overriding these settings  perhaps enforced by the control panel used on your server

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You need to set the error reporting value in a  htaccess file  Since there is a parse error  it never runs the error reporting   function in your PHP code   Try this in a  htaccess file  assuming you can use one    php flag display errors 1 php value error reporting 30719   I think 30719 corresponds to E ALL but I may be wrong   Edit Update  http   php net manual en errorfunc constants php  int error reporting    int  level     --- 32767   E ALL  integer       All errors and warnings  as supported  except of   level E STRICT prior to PHP 5 4 0    32767 in PHP 5 4 x  30719 in PHP 5 3 x  6143 in PHP   5 2 x  2047 previously

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To people using Codeigniter  i m on C3    The index php file overwrite php ini configuration  so on index php file  line 68   case  development           error reporting -1           ini set  display errors   1       break    You can change this option to set what you need  Here s the complete list   1   E ERROR 2   E WARNING 4   E PARSE 8   E NOTICE 16  E CORE ERROR 32  E CORE WARNING 64  E COMPILE ERROR 128 E COMPILE WARNING 256 E USER ERROR 512 E USER WARNING 1024    E USER NOTICE 6143    E ALL 2048    E STRICT 4096    E RECOVERABLE ERROR   Hope it helps

[php] How to have PHP display errors? (I've added ini_set and error_reporting, but just gives 500 on errors)

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