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ini_set('display_errors', 1);
// Report simple running errors
error_reporting(E_ERROR | E_WARNING | E_PARSE);
// Reporting E_NOTICE can be good too (to report uninitialized
// variables or catch variable name misspellings ...)
error_reporting(E_ERROR | E_WARNING | E_PARSE | E_NOTICE);
// Report all errors except E_NOTICE
error_reporting(E_ALL & ~E_NOTICE);
// Report all PHP errors (see changelog)
error_reporting(E_ALL);
// Report all PHP errors
error_reporting(-1);
// Same as error_reporting(E_ALL);
ini_set('error_reporting', E_ALL);
Changelog
5.4.0 E_STRICT became part of E_ALL
5.3.0 E_DEPRECATED and E_USER_DEPRECATED introduced.
5.2.0 E_RECOVERABLE_ERROR introduced.
5.0.0 E_STRICT introduced (not part of E_ALL).