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PHP

Posted by Chloe Conn
Chloe Conn
3,217 Points

PHP debugging suggestions??

One thing that I’ve struggled with is error reporting. I’ve enabled it in the php.ini, and in my source code, and everywhere I can think of. Do you have any issues debugging your code, and what do you do? Or, does WordPress have some Magic Sauce somewhere that helps make PHP less angry at you?

1 Answer

Andrew Shook
Andrew Shook
31,709 Points

If you are trying to turn on error reporting for php in Wordpress then you need to make some changes to the wp-config.php file. Copy and paste this code:

@ini_set( 'log_errors', 'Off' );
@ini_set( 'display_errors', 'On' );
@ini_set( 'error_reporting', E_ALL );
define( 'WP_DEBUG', true );
define( 'WP_DEBUG_LOG', false );
define( 'WP_DEBUG_DISPLAY', true );

,which can be found here, below line 81 of your wp-config file. Make sure you comment out this constant on line 81:

define('WP_DEBUG', false);

Once you do that you show be good to go.