No Error Reporting

[scott532]

Hi, I'm using php on my localhost. When I deliberately try to make an error connecting to my MySQL DB, all I get is a white page, no errors. How can I change the error reporting to be on (using Mac OS X)?

Thanks,
Scott

[Orio]

Look into [url=http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.error-reporting.php]error_reporting()[/url]
I'd recommend you to use error_reporting(E_ALL) while debugging.

Orio.

[wildteen88]

You also want to make sure the display_errors directive is turned on too in order to get the errors to be displayed to the browser. To turn this setting on you need to edit the php.ini.

[Jenk]

[quote author=wildteen88 link=topic=105974.msg423838#msg423838 date=1156841597]
You also want to make sure the display_errors directive is turned on too in order to get the errors to be displayed to the browser. To turn this setting on you need to edit the php.ini.
[/quote]for all errors other than parse errors, you can use runtime change.

[scott532]

Hi, i'm a definate unix no0b so be easy on me  ::).

Here's my problem. I'm in php.ini and it is read only. I can see [b]display_errors = Off[/b]. I need to turn it to on, but it won't let me write to this file.
I also went back and used the following command: [b]chmod g+w /usr/local/...php.ini[/b] and it responded saying  [b]operation not permitted[/b]. Why is it not permitted?
Thanks,
-Scott

[wildteen88]

I'm a linux newb too, but I think you need to run [b]sudo chmod g+w /usr/local/...php.ini[/b].

[scott532]

Hey wildteen... thanks for the sudo command it helped. what i ended up doing was this: [b]sudo chmod a=rwx /usr/local/...php.ini[/b] in order to write to the file. Then i restarted my comp before I noticed any error messaging showing up on the pages.

[wildteen88]

If you use Apache you just need to restart Apache and not your computer for any new chnages from the server configuration files (httpd.conf or php.ini) to take affect