[POSSIBLE - SPAM] [FX.php List] How to turn on PHP error reporting on OS X

[David Ness]

William,

Macs are very unusual with regard to the location and presence of the
php.ini file. Google this topic for the answer to finding & setting up
the php.ini file on Macs.

Once that's done...

In your php.ini file, configure your error log settings. Search for
'Log'
I have mine set as follows:


error_reporting  =  E_ALL
display_errors = off
display_startup_errors = Off
log_errors = On
log_errors_max_len = 1024
ignore_repeated_source = Off
error_log = \path to your website directory\phperrorlog.txt

Read the info in the php.ini file for a lot more detail and options,
there are many ways to configure error logging. There are probably many
places you can locate the error log file, and different names you could
call it, of course. Placing the file into my web directory works for me
so I know PHP has the proper permissions to write the file here.


This php error logging has proven to be VERY helpful in cleaning up my
code.


--
David Ness,
FileMaker/PHP Developer
 
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[mailto:fx.php_list-bounces at mail.iviking.org] On Behalf Of William Akey
Sent: Thursday, May 04, 2006 10:57 AM
To: FX.php Discussion List
Subject: [POSSIBLE - SPAM] [FX.php List] How to turn on PHP error
reporting on OS X

Hi Folks,

I have just started to work on a FX.php solution on an Mac running OS
10.3.9 and PHP 5.x. Can some kind soul tell me where to go to enable
display of PHP parsing errors?

 Currently, when I have parsing errors in my code, I just get a blank
page instead of the nice error reporting that I am used to on the PC
side.
Needless to say, blank pages make it a lot harder to debug my code. I am
familiar with using Print_r() and Set Debug True, but those don't catch
the simple parse errors from poor typing. There does not seem to be a
php.ini file anywhere on the Mac that I could hope to modify.

Thanks for any help you can give.

William
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