How to see errors suppressed by '@'?

Question

I joined this crazy company as a Site Administrator. Now I did some changes to my db configurations which have impacted the PHP scripts execution.

Strange part is P

Answer 1

If you have Xdebug installed and enabled (in development, you should) then you can set the xdebug.scream configuration option, which disables the @-operator.

Alternatively, the scream PECL extension also disables the @-operator (and that's all it does).

Basically you install the extension then set the scream.enabled ini setting to true/on.