It is probably not the best thing to do. You need to at least check out your PHP error log for things going wrong ;)
# PHP error handling for development servers
php_flag display_startup_errors off
php_flag display_errors off
php_flag html_errors off
php_flag log_errors on
php_flag ignore_repeated_errors off
php_flag ignore_repeated_source off
php_flag report_memleaks on
php_flag track_errors on
php_value docref_root 0
php_value docref_ext 0
php_value error_log /home/path/public_html/domain/PHP_errors.log
php_value error_reporting -1
php_value log_errors_max_len 0
Use:
ini_set('display_errors','off');
It is working fine in WordPress' config.php.
If you are in a shared hosting plan that doesn't have PHP installed as a module you will get a 500 server error when adding those flags to the .htaccess file.
But you can add the line
ini_set('display_errors','off');
on top of your .php file and it should work without any errors.
Fortes is right, thank you.
When you have a shared hosting it is usual to obtain an 500 server error.
I have a website with Joomla and I added to the index.php:
ini_set('display_errors','off');
The error line showed in my website disappeared.
I used ini_set('display_errors','off'); and it worked great.
Try:
php_value error_reporting 2039
Source: Stackoverflow.com