Posted by J.O. Aho on 03/19/06 20:17

cricketunes@yahoo.com wrote:
> Hi all,
> I am running PHP over Linux. When there is a bug in the code, there is
> nothing output to the screen. Debugging the reason is like the
> proverbial needle in a haystack situation.

By default PHP don't show errors nowadays on the HTML-output.


> Is there a command for seeing the compilation errors?

Look in your php.ini and you can turn on the HTML-output or store the errors
to a logfile. You can decide how much errors should be shown too (log level)

error_reporting = E_ALL

display_errors = On

display_startup_errors = On

log_errors = On

error_log = syslog


Those settings would log everything in your syslog (most distros uses
/var/log/messages) and types out everything to the HTML-output, the
HTML-output can lead to all to much output, so it can be wiser to turn it off
(display_errors = Off).


//Aho

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