Unable to turn off notice errors in PHP 5.3.2 - php

I recently migrated to PHP 5.3.2, and realized that I am unable to turn off notice errors in my site now. I went to php.ini, and in these lines:
; Common Values:
; E_ALL & ~E_NOTICE (Show all errors, except for notices and coding standards warnings.)
; E_ALL & ~E_NOTICE | E_STRICT (Show all errors, except for notices)
; E_COMPILE_ERROR|E_RECOVERABLE_ERROR|E_ERROR|E_CORE_ERROR (Show only errors)
; E_ALL | E_STRICT (Show all errors, warnings and notices including coding standards.)
; Default Value: E_ALL & ~E_NOTICE
; Development Value: E_ALL | E_STRICT
; Production Value: E_ALL & ~E_DEPRECATED
; http://php.net/error-reporting
error_reporting = E_ALL & ~E_NOTICE
...I've tried setting everything (and I restart apache each time), but I am unable to get rid of notices.
The only way I'm able to get rid of notice errors is by setting :
display_errors = Off
That is, of course, not something I can do since I need to see errors to fix them, and I would like to see errors on the webpage that I am coding rather than log them somewhere.
Can someone help? Is this a bug in PHP 5.3.2 or something I am doing wrong?
Thank you very much for your time!
P. S. Also, would anyone know how I can get PHP 5.3.2 to support the .php3 extension?

Okay, I figured what was going wrong. I set error_reporting in my code, which was overwriting the php.ini error_reporting.
Now the reason that that same stuff was working until I upgraded to PHP 5.3.2 was this - in my code, I set the error_reporting command:
error_reporting(6143);
I should've set it as:
error_reporting(E_ALL ^ E_NOTICE);
I'm guessing the meaning of 6143 is different in PHP 5.3.2 compared to in 4.1 (or whatever my earlier version was).
As for the php3 extension, it was to be set in the /etc/httpd/conf.d/php.conf file:
AddHandler php5-script .php .php3
AddType text/html .php
Thank you, sourcez, for your suggestions!

I too faced same error today in my website where i use TCPDF Library to generate PDFs. It was working fine but suddenly i started to get the following error today
Severity: 8192
Message: Imagick::clone method is deprecated .....
Might be the hosting provider updated PHP or Imagick. PHP - 5.4 and Imagick - 3.x
So to get rid of this in my code, i set error_reporting as
error_reporting(E_ALL & ~E_NOTICE & ~E_STRICT & ~E_DEPRECATED);
And this will show the errors but not the deprecated notices. Meanwhile I can change my code to support the new version of Imagick.

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if statement not working on new server, requires use of "empty"

I've inherited some code that is working great on one server, which is running PHP 7.1.7. Throughout the code their are numerous if statements similar to the following that are checking to see if a variable exists.
if ($_SESSION['user'])
if ($_POST['company_id'])
On the new server, which as PHP 7.2.5, these if statements are throwing errors. I'm having to change them all to use "empty".
if (empty($_SESSION['user']))
if (!empty($_POST['company_id']))
This wouldn't be a big deal if there were only a few, but there's 100+. I've tried changing the PHP version to 7.1.7 on the new server to match the old, but still have the same issue.
I have to imagine there is a setting somewhere that could be changed to allow these work without the need to use "empty" on all of them. Thanks for any insight.
Like #IncredibleHat suggested, you can prevent this by suppressing error notices. Any one of these three should address the warnings.
// this can go in your PHP
ini_set('error_reporting', E_ALL & ~E_NOTICE & ~E_STRICT & ~E_DEPRECATED);
// OR you can put this in your .htaccess file
php_value error_reporting E_ALL & ~E_NOTICE & ~E_STRICT & ~E_DEPRECATED
// OR you can put this in your php.ini file
error_reporting = E_ALL & ~E_NOTICE & ~E_STRICT & ~E_DEPRECATED

Can't get php errors to show when `error_reporting` set to `E_ALL`

I have WAMP with php 5.4.12 and I want to report errors.
My php.ini contains the following:
; Common Values:
; E_ALL & ~E_NOTICE (Show all errors, except for notices and coding standards warnings.)
; E_ALL & ~E_NOTICE | E_STRICT (Show all errors, except for notices)
; E_COMPILE_ERROR|E_RECOVERABLE_ERROR|E_ERROR|E_CORE_ERROR (Show only errors)
; E_ALL | E_STRICT (Show all errors, warnings and notices including coding standards.)
; Default Value: E_ALL & ~E_NOTICE
; Development Value: E_ALL | E_STRICT
; Production Value: E_ALL & ~E_DEPRECATED
; http://php.net/error-reporting
error_reporting = E_ALL
but no errors are showing.
What value should error_reporting take and how can I retrieve the reported errors?
I guess display_errors is turned off in your php.ini. Try the following instead (in the php file you are working on).
ini_set('display_errors' , 'On');
error_reporting(E_ALL);
For setting the flag on from php.ini, locate where display_errors is and change the value to On. Post your full php.ini if this does not work.
Can you check whether any error reporting flag in the php script(which will overwrite the php ini flags) in which you are trying to run and also in the .htaccess file. These are the two options which overwrites the php .ini flags.

Why would PHP report errors in my Include that aren't really errors?

Warning: include(../config.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in C:\wamp\www\happyDB\script\logincheck.php on line 3
The funny thing is, is its working fine and the file its saying isn't there is... Any ideas?
Because it's configured to do so in the php.ini file.
PHP 5.3 or later, the default value is E_ALL & ~E_NOTICE & ~E_STRICT & ~E_DEPRECATED. This setting does not show E_NOTICE, E_STRICT and E_DEPRECATED level errors. You may want to show them during development. Prior to PHP 5.3.0, the default value is E_ALL & ~E_NOTICE & ~E_STRICT. In PHP 4 the default value is E_ALL & ~E_NOTICE.
Have a look at the PHP docs to see how to modify the situations in which PHP reports errors.
http://www.php.net/manual/en/errorfunc.configuration.php#ini.error-reporting

disabling deprecated errors

I want to enable deprecated errors globally but disable them for a specific piece of third-party code, which I don't have the time to fix.
So, I have this in php.ini:
error_reporting = E_ALL & ~E_NOTICE | E_DEPRECATED
and this right before the line where I want to disable the warnings
error_reporting(E_ALL & ~E_NOTICE & ~E_DEPRECATED);
However, it does not work, I'm still getting the warnings for that particular line. If I disable them globally in php.ini it works. I'm using PHP 5.3.10. Any ideas what might be wrong?
Figured it out. The third party code has custom error handler and apparently it's overriding anything you set with error_reporting(). When I commented out the set_error_handler() line, error_reporting() took effect.
Add the below error reporting line in your php.ini:
error_reporting(E_ALL & ~E_WARNING & ~E_NOTICE & ~E_DEPRECATED);
Then restart your server and check it.

How to disable E_STRICT

I need to turn off E_STRICT. I have error_reporting = E_ALL & ~E_STRICT in my php.ini but it seems to be ignored. I tried this in my code:
ini_set('error_reporting', E_NOTICE);
Nothing!
Please help.
try this.
error_reporting(E_ALL ^ E_STRICT);
This will report all errors except E_STRICT
If you've got your own error handler (search your code for set_error_handler), then the error_reporting config value will be ignored:
It is important to remember that the standard PHP error handler is completely bypassed for the error types specified by error_types unless the callback function returns FALSE. error_reporting() settings will have no effect and your error handler will be called regardless - however you are still able to read the current value of error_reporting and act appropriately. Of particular note is that this value will be 0 if the statement that caused the error was prepended by the # error-control operator.
http://php.net/manual/en/function.set-error-handler.php
Also removing E_STRICT from the error_reporting config could fail, if the error occurs in the same file where error_reporting(...) (or ini_set('error_reporting, ...')) is called.
You mentioned you're using a framework (would be good to know which one) anyway you can add something like this on the very first index.php:
error_reporting(E_ERROR | E_WARNING | E_PARSE);
ini_set('display_errors', 'On');
But make sure you're on the first index.php that gets called, meaning the very first in the stack, for certain framework that would save you some pain.
Other thing: most of the frameworks have their own config file to address production software VS. development software and they have their own way of doing things, so I would start from there....have a look at the docs and find out if there's anything there you need to change...it could be a super simple change on a config file most likely.
I was installing CMS Made simple when I ran into that error but here is how I over came it:
1) Open your php.ini file using any of your favorite editors;notepad, notepad++ or dreamweaver.
2) Press ctrl+f to fire up the find Dialog Box.
3) Type E_STRICT and click ok to jump you to the E_STRICT Line, there several E_STRICT Stuff but look for one with this kind of setting;
Common Values:
E_ALL & ~E_NOTICE (Show all errors, except for notices and coding standards warnings.)
E_ALL & ~E_NOTICE | E_STRICT (Show all errors, except for notices)
E_COMPILE_ERROR|E_RECOVERABLE_ERROR|E_ERROR|E_CORE_ERROR (Show only errors)
E_ALL | E_STRICT (Show all errors, warnings and notices including coding standards.)
Default Value: E_ALL & ~E_NOTICE
Development Value: E_ALL | E_STRICT
Production Value: E_ALL & ~E_DEPRECATED
http://php.net/error-reporting
error_reporting = E_ALL , here the value with out the ";" is what matters so I just cleared it to:
error_reporting = (delete) and removed the E_ALL, and saved the file, I restarted all the services, and everything worked fine.
Hope that works for you too!.
error_reporting(E_ALL & ~E_STRICT);

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