PHP error reporting: which to use E_ALL, E_ALL & ~E_NOTICE or ~E_ALL
Speaking of error reporting in PHP we might all have seen the above values. So what do they mean? Which settings should I be using? What is the purpose and difference between these values? Let find that out!!
What the error_log will contain depends on the settings we use:
E_ALL & ~E_NOTICE : Report all errors except E_NOTICE
~E_ALL : Stop all
So, wait. Wont you be wondering ‘Isn’t it better to have all errors and notices to be logged as it creates more idea of the website and its issues.’
Well, there are instances when the disk space of accounts suddenly increase or hit its limits and with a little debugging you come to find that it is just the error_log file which gre exponentially to a large size. So, you might want to disable notices from being logged as they are not errors and just a deprecation warning or something you might be knowing.
E_NOTICE is helpful to analyse programming related errors.
Change PHP Error reporting settings in cPanel server (with PHP Selector)
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Login to cPanel (eg: http://example.com
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Navigate to cPanel >> Software and Services >> Select PHP Version.
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Now select Switch To PHP Options
You can set/change error_reporting here
If the server does not come with CloudLinux and PHP Selector, then you will have to change the settings via php.ini or .htaccess