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How do I enable error reporting in PHP (MAMP)?

So I'm running MAMP on my Mac since I was unable to change my htdocs location to a directory on a local server (no problem to use that local server with MAMP though)

Somehow, php error reporting is disabled for me. I used phpinfo(); to find the right ini file (which is located at "Applications ▸ MAMP ▸ bin ▸ php ▸ php5.6.10 ▸ conf" in my case) and changed display_errors from "off" to "on" (without the " " of course)

error_reporting is set to E_ALL

However, when I now run phpinfo(); again, Display errors is still turned off.

I have also tried to override those values in the php code without success.

Apparently MAMP overrides the modified php.ini everytime it starts. Source: https://stackoverflow.com/a/16154605/2667307

Solution

  • Why you are not creating a script with <?php phpinfo() ?> ? by running in browser you'll see Loaded Configuration File This tells you which php.ini file PHP is using like for me it's at /etc/php5/apache2/php.ini

    Review below screenshot.

    though,

    You can try to override it by doing error_reporting(E_ALL);

    // Report all PHP errors
error_reporting(E_ALL);

    and 

    if (!ini_get('display_errors')) {
    ini_set('display_errors', '1');
}