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
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
E_ALL
on
include
require
config.php
error_reporting(E_ALL); ini_set('display_errors', 'on');