Get PHP to display warnings and errors only

Question

How do I set PHP to display warnings and errors and not to show notices?

But you should also take care of the notices. They are there for a reason. Just disable them does not make the potential problem go away. — Felix Kling
– Felix Kling, Commented Dec 19, 2010 at 1:37
@FelixKling: It sufficies to be notified once, since the issues are normally speculative. There is a difference between ignoring them and just disabling their display. (Btw, custom error handlers [logs] still can see them, whereas syntactic isset salt will forfeit them completely.) — mario
– mario, Commented Dec 19, 2010 at 2:36
@mario: Disabling error_reporting E_NOTICE level not only disables their display, but the logging as well. You can enable the PHP ignore_repeated_errors INI directive to be notified only once if you want to. No need to completely disable E_NOTICE. — netcoder
– netcoder, Commented Dec 19, 2010 at 4:40
@netcoder: Depends. Using a set_error_handler will get you all notices even for error_reporting(0), which I use for logging to unclog the httpd.log. Nice tip on the ignore_repeated_errors, seems rather useful for development stage. — mario
– mario, Commented Dec 19, 2010 at 4:44

Jacob Relkin · Accepted Answer · 2010-12-19 01:39:12Z

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Put this into your php.ini file:

error_reporting = E_ERROR | E_WARNING
display_errors  = 1

EDIT: As @Felix said, you should probably have those notices show as well. They are there for a reason.

answered Dec 19, 2010 at 1:34

Jacob Relkin

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do you know how to set this from php.ini file?

@Adamski Find display_errors and set it to 1. error_reporting() is a runtime setting I'm pretty sure.

How do you set this in /etc/apache2/sites-available using php_value?