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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 when I tried to access a PHP file through a web-browser and an error occurred. With the default installation of MAMP it seems that this feature is disabled, whenever I hit an error I can't see the cause of it, I can't even see a single line informing me that an error occurred.

Not until I start to debug the code in a debugger I can see where the error occurred.

Any idea how error reporting can be turned on?

I tried:

error_reporting(E_ALL);

No effect at all though.

aksamit
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  • You need to set this in the php.ini to have an effect for parsing errors. – mario May 23 '11 at 10:19
  • have you checked the error reporting level in the php.ini? – martynthewolf May 23 '11 at 10:20
  • If you checked the `php.ini`, did you look at the _right_ one? Be default there are at least two different `php.ini`s (one for cli and one for apache). Additional some IDEs use an own one. – KingCrunch May 23 '11 at 10:24

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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');
afarazit
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    This solved the issue. A more permanent solution was to edit the php.ini file and change the configuration to the following: error_reporting = E_ALL display_errors = On – aksamit May 23 '11 at 15:48
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Try ini_set('display_errors', 'on');

You'll also want to check a phpinfo(), to see if the ini_sets are doing anything.

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Or change "display_errors = Off" to "display_errors = On" in /Applications/MAMP/bin/php/php5.4.4/conf/php.ini

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Navigate to MAMP settings (eg localhost:8889/MAMP)

Click PHP Tab

Find Log errors: setting

Tick to screen

Click Save

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