Question

is there a way to set error_reporting(E_ALL); for a specific directory rather than including it in each file?

I’d like to turn on error reporting for my beta.mysite.com

Answer 1

You can use a .htaccess file in Apache. Just add this line:

php_value error_reporting 6143

Or for old PHP versions:

php_value error_reporting 2047

Note that you can’t use the contants (like E_ALL)

From the manual:

Note: PHP Constants outside of PHP

Using PHP Constants outside of PHP,
like in httpd.conf, will have no
useful meaning so in such cases the
integer values are required. And since
error levels will be added over time,
the maximum value (for E_ALL) will
likely change. So in place of E_ALL
consider using a larger value to cover
all bit fields from now and well into
the future, a numeric value like
2147483647.