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UPDATE 2   I have now removed the following from the  php file    lt  php error reporting  E ALL      gt    I have set display erros in php ini as follows      display errors   On   Error reporting is set to the following in php ini      error reporting   E ALL   E STRICT   After restarting Apache  I still get no errors warnings   UPDATE 1   I have changed error reporting in php ini from      error reporting   E ALL  amp     E DEPRECATED   to     error reporting   E ALL   E STRICT   After which I restarted Apache  e g       etc init d apache2 restart   But the page will still not display errors warnings of any kind   ORIGINAL QUESTION   The following script is generating a warning because the  err being inside the if statement  Why is this warning not being displayed on the PHP page in a web browser   I have to look at the Apache logs to see the warning   Also  if I deliberately change the  insert into  to  delete into   it does not display an error on the PHP page  Why are the errors not displaying on the actual PHP page    lt  php     error reporting E ALL     gt    lt html gt       lt head gt           lt title gt  lt  title gt           lt link rel  icon  type  image png  href  favicon ico  gt            lt  php             if    SERVER  REQUEST METHOD       POST                      err   array                     if  empty    POST  display name                          err      display name field is required                   if  empty    POST  email                          err      email field is required                   if  empty    POST  password                          err      password field is required                    if    err                        try                            DBH   new PDO  mysql host localhost dbname database1    user    pass                             DBH- gt setAttribute PDO  ATTR ERRMODE  PDO  ERRMODE EXCEPTION                             STH    DBH- gt prepare  delete into table1  display name  email  password  values    display name   email   password                                STH- gt bindParam   display name     POST  display name    PDO  PARAM STR  100                            STH- gt bindParam   email     POST  email    PDO  PARAM STR  100                            STH- gt bindParam   password     POST  password    PDO  PARAM STR  100                             STH- gt execute                              STH    DBH- gt prepare  delete into table2   username  status  users id   values    username   status   users id                                strStatus   1                            STH- gt bindParam   username     POST  display name    PDO  PARAM STR  100                            STH- gt bindParam   status    strStatus  PDO  PARAM INT  1                            STH- gt bindParam   users id     POST  referer    PDO  PARAM INT  1                             STH- gt execute                              DBH   null                                            catch  PDOException  e                            echo  e- gt getMessage                                               header  Location        SERVER  PHP SELF                         exit                                    else                       foreach    POST as  key   gt   val                             form  key    htmlspecialchars  val                                                                     else                    form  display name      form  email      form  password                                 gt       lt  head gt        lt body gt           lt  php foreach  err as  line      gt           lt div style  error  gt  lt  php echo  line    gt  lt  div gt           lt  php     gt            lt h1 gt Register lt  h1 gt            lt form method  post  gt              Referers id  lt br  gt               lt input type  text  name  referer    gt  lt br  gt  lt br  gt               Name  lt br  gt               lt input type  text  name  display name  value   lt  php echo  form  display name      gt     gt  lt br  gt  lt br  gt               Email  lt br  gt               lt input type  text  name  email  value   lt  php echo  form  email      gt     gt  lt br  gt  lt br  gt               Password  lt br  gt               lt input type  text  name  password  value   lt  php echo  form  password      gt     gt  lt br  gt  lt br  gt                lt input type  submit  value  register    gt           lt  form gt       lt  body gt   lt  html gt

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I was able to get all errors via the below code   ini set  display startup errors   1   ini set  display errors   1   error reporting -1

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Straight from the php ini file                                    Error handling and logging                                     This directive informs PHP of which errors  warnings and notices you would like   it to take action for  The recommended way of setting values for this   directive is through the use of the error level constants and bitwise   operators  The error level constants are below here for convenience as well as   some common settings and their meanings    By default  PHP is set to take action on all errors  notices and warnings EXCEPT   those related to E NOTICE and E STRICT  which together cover best practices and   recommended coding standards in PHP  For performance reasons  this is the   recommend error reporting setting  Your production server shouldn t be wasting   resources complaining about best practices and coding standards  That s what   development servers and development settings are for    Note  The php ini-development file has this setting as E ALL  This   means it pretty much reports everything which is exactly what you want during   development and early testing      Error Level Constants    E ALL             - All errors and warnings  includes E STRICT as of PHP 5 4 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 is 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  amp   E NOTICE   Show all errors  except for notices      E ALL  amp   E NOTICE  amp   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  amp   E NOTICE  amp   E STRICT  amp   E DEPRECATED   Development Value  E ALL   Production Value  E ALL  amp   E DEPRECATED  amp   E STRICT   http   php net error-reporting error reporting   E ALL  amp   E DEPRECATED  amp   E STRICT   For pure development I go for   error reporting   E ALL   E NOTICE   E WARNING   Also don t forget to put display errors to on  display errors   On   After that  restart your server for Apache on Ubuntu   sudo  etc init d apache2 restart

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Display errors could be turned off in the php ini or your Apache configuration file  You can turn it on in the script  error reporting E ALL   ini set  display errors    1     You should see the same messages in the PHP error log

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You can see a detailed description here   ini set  display errors   1       Report simple running errors error reporting E ERROR   E WARNING   E PARSE       Reporting E NOTICE can be good too  to report uninitialized    variables or catch variable name misspellings      error reporting E ERROR   E WARNING   E PARSE   E NOTICE       Report all errors except E NOTICE error reporting E ALL  amp   E NOTICE       Report all PHP errors  see changelog  error reporting E ALL       Report all PHP errors error reporting -1       Same as error reporting E ALL   ini set  error reporting   E ALL        Changelog       5 4 0    E STRICT became part of E ALL     5 3 0    E DEPRECATED and E USER DEPRECATED introduced      5 2 0    E RECOVERABLE ERROR introduced      5 0 0    E STRICT introduced  not part of E ALL

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Set these on php ini    display startup errors   On display startup errors off display errors  on html errors  on   From your PHP page  use a suitable filter for error reporting   error reporting E ALL     Filers can be made according to requirements   E ALL E ALL   E STRICT

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PHP errors can be displayed by any of below methods   ini set  display errors   1   ini set  display startup errors   1   error reporting E ALL     For more details   Displaying PHP errors

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