PHP Errors are not showing up in the browser

Question

I am facing a strange problem. I have set up everything in php.ini file. But i can't get any errors showing up in the browser. I googled to set up the .ini file and did all the required things. But still i am not able to get error message displaying in the browser. My PHP ini settings,

display_errors = On
display_startup_errors = On
error_reporting = E_ALL | E_STRICT
log_errors = On
track_errors = On

I tried with the following code to see error message,

<?php
      require_once("sample.php");
 ?>

Actually the file sample is not available. So it must show Fatal error. But it is showing a blank page.

Can you point me out to fix this? I don't know what i am missing here.

Answer 1

You can also add custom error reporting to your php and test with that:

<?php
    error_reporting( E_ALL );
    ini_set( "display_errors", 1 );
    require_once( "sample.php" );
?>

If you get fatals, then something is wrong with php.ini configuration ( maybe you have multiple php.ini files? ). If you still get nothing, then php can find the file ( maybe you have some redirects set up? Maybe some strange extensions? )

Answer 2

I found the problem. Actually, PHP is installed with XDebug extension. So the problem is in that extension. Even i was not aware of that. Because this system was used by someone previously. I uninstalled and installed again with new supported version. It works now. Thanks and sorry for the inconvenience friends.

Answer 3

Try finding these words in your php.ini file

display_errors
error_reporting

change default value of display_errors from Off to On
change default value of error_reporting from XXXX to E_ERROR | E_PARSE

Restart apache server.
Mind, It'll always show errors.