MAMP Config help, display PHP errors

In addition to the display_errors directive, which has to be set to On, you might have to configure error_reporting.

For instance, you can use this in your php.ini file :

error_reporting = E_ALL

Another should, useful to test, might be to place this kind of portion of PHP code at the beginning of your script :

error_reporting(E_ALL);
ini_set('display_errors', 'On');

This is useful when you don't have access to php.ini and/or just want to test quickly, without having to restart the webserver.

As a sidenote, when it comes to displaying errors, the Xdebug extension is really great : when it's installed/enabled/configured, instead of just having an error message, you'll get the full stack-trace, which is much more useful ;-)

I recently experienced the same problem - in my case I had downloaded a client's Wordpress site from their live server that turned out to have been tampered with by malicious script insertion that was overriding the error reporting in order to escape detection.

A little late to help the OP(!), but perhaps of use to future searchers.

There might have a .htaccess file in a directory that overrides the display_errors setting set in php.ini. From your post I assume you didn't explicitly add this but a few frameworks do this by default so might be added that way. Look for a line like this in your .htaccess file:

php_value display_errors 0

and change the value to 1.

If you have several php sdks with several versions, first make it sure you are editing correct php.ini file. If you were right add this two lines at the beginning of the code.

error_reporting(E_ALL);
ini_set('display_errors', 'On'); // or ini_set('display_errors', 1);

Here's a twist to the same answer. I had the same issues, just copied and pasted the ini path from the php info page and still same problems...

turns out I made a syntax mistake when I edited my 'error_reporting' block in the php.ini.

I had E_NOTICE rather than ~E_NOTICE.

:(

So mistakes can happen in the php.ini if you were editing it and totally forgot you edited something.