PHP error display removing all other content

Question

On a development server here, a setting has been changed which makes any PHP error (of any level) only output the error message and nothing else. To demonstrate what I mean, here's a script to reproduce the error:

<?php
$array = array('a');
echo "Hello world";
echo $array[1];
echo $array[2];
echo "Goodbye world";
?>

What I'd expect from this is "Hello world", then two PHP Notices saying that there was an undefined offset in the array, and then "Goodbye world". What I actually see is this:

PHP Notice:  Undefined offset:  1 in /path/to/myfile.php on line 4
PHP Notice:  Undefined offset:  2 in /path/to/myfile.php on line 5

...and nothing else. (Also note that it's in plain text like that, not HTML). Of course, I could set error_reporting(0), but then I don't see any of the errors.

Does anyone know what PHP setting would control this?

Answer 1

My guess is that output buffering has been turned on. Try:

<?php
$array = array('a');
echo "Hello world";
ob_flush();
echo $array[1];
echo $array[2];
echo "Goodbye world";
?>

Answer 2

You need to turn off the warnings, and just get the fatal errors. This should do that:

error_reporting(E_ERROR | E_WARNING | E_PARSE);

or this:

error_reporting(E_ERROR | E_PARSE);

the error reporting method is taking an integer here, and the pipe character is bitwise or-ing their underlying integer values together to achieve the final integer passed to the function.

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