I recently changed to a MacBook and now use the MAMP-stack for development locally.
In my earlier development environment I always could see informative error-reports wh
Or change "display_errors = Off" to "display_errors = On" in /Applications/MAMP/bin/php/php5.4.4/conf/php.ini
Try ini_set('display_errors', 'on');
You'll also want to check a phpinfo(), to see if the ini_sets are doing anything.
Navigate to MAMP settings (eg localhost:8889/MAMP)
Click PHP Tab
Find Log errors: setting
Tick to screen
Click Save
reporting level to E_ALL and display errors on Include the following code at the top of every php file on in an include or require such as your config.php
error_reporting(E_ALL);
ini_set('display_errors', 'on');