[kjmatthews]

Anyone know how I should modify my php.ini file in OS X to get it to display useful errors? That is, currently I get errors like:

Parse error: parse error in /Library/WebServer/Documents/index.php on line 8

and I would like the errors to appear as they do on my XP machine, i.e.:

Parse error: parse error, unexpected ';', expecting ']' in /Library/WebServer/Documents/index.php on line 8

display_errors is set to on, but I can't seem to get it to show the more verbose error messages. I don't want to play around too much for fear of breaking something. Many thanks.

[kjmatthews]

Let me clarify. I am running PHP on an Apache server which happens to be running on an Apple computer. I stupidly asked how to modify the php.ini on an OSX box without realizing that it sounded as though I was running an Apple server or something. That is not the case. What I can't figure out is how to generate useful error messages in Apache - for whatever reason I didn't have this problem on my WinXP computer, which displayed the verbose error messages automatically, so I don't know how to solve it.