Error reporting levels in PHP

[JiJi]

What are the error reporting levels in PHP? Any PHP error like a simple syntax error causes error 500 and I get no useful info on the php error, can that be changed?

[kelfro]

In PHP, the error reporting level (whether errors go to the log or to the screen or whatever) is determinded by the error_reporting INI directive (or at runtime using the error_reporting() function). Both take an integer as their value - and usually this integer is represented by error level constants like E_ALL, E_STRICT or E_USER_WARNING.

So in order to set the error reporting to anything but notices and strict errors, you would set something like this in php.ini:

error_reporting = E_ALL & ~E_NOTICE & ~E_STRICT

[Zecho]

Here is a table of different error levels, all linking back to PHP.net

error_reporting() level constants and bit values

[Katty]

If you want to hide errors on a PHP page or just show really critical ones, you can try this,

// Report all PHP errors
error_reporting(E_ALL);

PS. You first need to make sure your browser didn't display friendly error.

[JiJi]

Hey Zecho, that was a great work. I was searching for such a list of PHP error reporting. And I have checked that my browser is not giving any friendly error. Thank you and all others for giving valuable inputs.