Question

Zend is automatically suppressing notices, how can I change this application wide to halt execution when a notice occurs?

For instance, an undefined variable or missing parameter (which causes an undefined variable) will show a notice in the error log. If this notice occurs in a method that writes to a database, no data will be written and no error will be shown.

Answer 1

Check the PHP error settings in application/configs/application.ini. The typical setup is this:

[production]
phpSettings.display_startup_errors = 0
phpSettings.display_errors = 0

[development : production]
phpSettings.display_startup_errors = 1
phpSettings.display_errors = 1

which means hide errors in production mode but show in development.