PHP Error Messages

[zssz]

So, I've installed PHP 5.2.1 onto my Linux VPS, everything works great.

 

I have one problem though, I cannot seem to get error messages to display on a webpage if there are errors. To view the errors, I need to go into the control panel (LXAdmin) and click on the 'Error Logs' section.

 

How can I make it so I can enable errors to be displayed on the page and whenever there is an error, it writes to a file like 'ERROR_LOG' in the directory in which the error occurred?

 

If the second part of the question is a little too complex to explain here, the first part would be enough.

 

Thanks!

[zssz]

Alright, I solved the first problem (trying to get the error messages to display on page), it required me moving php.ini into the directory. Now I need to find a way to log the errors into a log file in the same directory as the script is running.

[wildteen88]

If you want to log errors globally then setup the error_log directive to the location you want all errors to be logged to. You should also enable the log_errors directive too

 

However if you want to log errors temporarily to different location the use ini_set within you script eg

<?php
ini_set('log_errors', 'On');
ini_set('error_log', '/path/to/your/script/error.log');

// rest of your code
?>

[zssz]

How can I make it log the errors to the directory where the erroneous script is?

They had this on a shared hosting environment I used to buy hosting from, and I didn't have to include anything in front of the script. I didn't need a new php.ini in every directory on that host either. Just one in public_html and everything worked fine.