php.ini setting, Is it important? Options

[Dag]

What will use the real professional in his php.ini setting:

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    error_reporting = E_ALL; & ~E_NOTICE or
    error_reporting = E_ALL & ~E_NOTICE

[Christian J]

My php.ini ("the recommended, PHP 5-style version of the php.ini-dist file") contains the following example:

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;   - Show all errors, except for notices and coding standards warnings
;
;error_reporting = E_ALL & ~E_NOTICE

In my understanding semi-colons comment out the rest of a line, if that's correct this:

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error_reporting = E_ALL; & ~E_NOTICE

should work the same as

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error_reporting = E_ALL;

[Dag]

Actually, my question is next: how many people do use E_NOTICE errors? So many advices "Switch them off" etc. etc. Accent were not in writing or meaning but in using.

[Christian J]

For a single site, or many sites on a shared server?

Enabling it globally on a shared server seems risky, e.g. this page mentions potential problems with older code: http://bealers.com/2007/08/16/setting-php-...st-or-htaccess/

You can use it for debugging while making an individual site, but then it's probably better to enable it separately for that site (e.g. through a htaccess directive). Once a site is made public it's maybe more secure to hide all(?) error reporting from malicious users.

[Dag]

Something like that... agree. PHP errors are for developers while they are created their scripts and pages. Users are not important. But error NOTICE is everywhere mentioned as "never mind". I am not sure that it is correct.