How to enable notices on my development server

Question

I have a development version of PHP on Apache. I moved it to production and got this weird notices in my website. I don\'t have it on development version. How to enable thes

Answer 1

Change your php.ini file, the line that says error_reporting, to E_ALL.

I.e:

error_reporting = E_ALL

Answer 2

Seb is right, though you really should use constant for error_reporting().

error_reporting(E_NOTICE);

You can use bitwise operations to pick exactly the messages you want to display. For example:

// notices and warnings
error_reporting(E_NOTICE | E_WARNING);

// everything except errors
error_reporting(E_ALL ^ E_ERROR);

Answer 3

If you have access to your php.ini, then Björn answer is the way to go.

However, if you don't, or if you want to change a particular script / project error level, do this at the beginning of your code:

ini_set('display_errors', 1);

// Enable error reporting for NOTICES
error_reporting(E_NOTICE);

You can see which levels are available for error_reporting here: http://us2.php.net/manual/en/function.error-reporting.php.

It's always a good practice not to show any errors on production environments, but logging any weird behaviors and sending by mail to the administrator. NOTICES should only be enabled on development environments.