Hello. I am the new "owner" of a dedicated server through iPower. My biggest frustrations have been trying to develop on a system that is not set up the same, PHP-wise. What I so enjoyed was the way the server gave me errors that I could easily fix. I could decipher the errors and fairly quickly find a solution. I have wrestled with the php.ini settings and ini_set to try to duplicate the settings and have those helps back. I get so confused. I think I have them on and then I get a white screen when I encounter errors. Sometimes I get a 404 error in refreshing after a post (don't know if this is related). I don't know if it a compination or settings or settings I' still clueless to.

I don't know the difference between
error_reporting (E_ALL)
and
ini_set("error_handling","E_ALL")
or is it
ini_set("error_handling","E_ALL")

Then there's
ini_set("display_errors","1")
or is it
ini_set("display_errors",1)

but maybe I could just fix it in the php.ini...

Sorry, I know this is getting long...

the errors I want to display are functional, programmatic errors.
like to know how to ignore undefined errors (try using Dreamweaver created code and these fly up everywhere... tired of typing isset...)

Any help from the wisened is greatly appreciated.

(and I know about phpinfo(), gone batty staring at it...)

Dru

in your php.ini find the line that contains (it should be after some text that explains how the errors levels work)

change it to and it should now display all errors+notices

btw, the line in your php scripts should give the same result, if display_errors is set in php.ini (it's on be default)

here is the php.ini list
http://www.php.net/manual/en/ini.php#ini.list