Hey i know there are a few posts regarding this topic and i have scoured them all!
I cannot not enable the display_errors setting in php no matter what i do!!!
In my case, what I had to do is
set_error_handler(NULL);
restore_error_handler();
I had defined a custom error handler, which entirely bypassed the default PHP error handler. Yet, I did not want to remove my custom error error handler permanently. So, I used set_error_handler(NULL); to reset the error_handler to its default value. I used restore_error_handler(); to get back my original custom error_handler.