I’m not sure if this is CentOS 4.x related, InterWorx related or both…
I have this test script:
<?php
error_reporting(2048);
$connection = mysql_connect("localhost","nosuchuser","nosuchpass") or die("Sorry, PHP was unable to connect to MySQL");
?>
On my new CentOS/InterWorx server, the output is this:
Sorry, PHP was unable to connect to MySQL
On another server, as one would expect errors to be shown, the output is this:
Warning: mysql_connect(): Access denied for user ‘nouser’@‘localhost’ (using password: YES) in /var/www/html/test-errors.php on line 3
Sorry, PHP was unable to connect to MySQL
Two (related) questions:
1, How can I allow users to change the Error Reporting thing (as it obviously isn’t letting me);
2, How can I make it show errors like it does in the second example, as they’re normally shown on almost all PHP installations?
The default php installation has display_errors off by default in /etc/php.ini. You can change it there, and restart the webserver. This can also be changed via a .htaccess setting,
php_value display_errors On
And error_reporting setting is working, it just appears that the value 2048 doesn’t include Warnings. If you enable the display_errors option, and call error_reporting() like:
error_reporting( E_ALL );
you should definately see the error/warning you’re looking for.
I’ve copied the warning setting line from a php.ini on a test server (which runs ubuntu/apache2/php5), but the errors are displaying too much.
Even at the top of some normally-working forums, two new errors (the same error, but twice) were introduced, which I’ve never seen before:
Warning: Call-time pass-by-reference has been deprecated - argument passed by value; If you would like to pass it by reference, modify the declaration of runtime function name. If you would like to enable call-time pass-by-reference, you can set allow_call_time_pass_reference to true in your INI file. However, future versions may not support this any longer. in /home/username/domain.com/html/forums/sources/classes/class_display.php on line 347
