error_reporting() does not show error

I am trying to debug an error found somewhere within my suite of
scripts. Nothing shows up when there's an error, it just simply dies.
I tried using error_reporting(E_ALL); to no avail. I tried everything
I could think of to get some kind of error to show up, to date nothing
shows up. Even trace statements like var_dump(), echo, print_r(),
print, all fail, it dies without even showing any trace elements, even
at the beginning of the first file called!

<?php
/************************************************** ***
editpage.php -- edit page components
************************************************** ***/

// /usr/local/plesk/apache/vhosts/oconsulting.net/httpdocs
print_r("1<P>");
// include libraries
require ("/var/www/lib/lib.inc");
print_r("2<P>");
require ("$userincludes/macros.inc");
print_r("3<P>");

?>

Help!

Phil

comp.lang.php wrote: 1. Did you add ini_set('display_errors', 1); too ?
2. If so, the value of display_errors in php.ini might be set to off
and the script is throwing parser error. In that case, this may help
(not tested), if you do not have access to php.ini:
<?php
//debug.php
ini_set('display_errors', 1);
error_reporting(E_ALL); // better set to
error_reporting(E_ALL|E_STRICT); if using PHP 5
eval(file_get_contents('file im testing.php'));
?>

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R. Rajesh Jeba Anbiah wrote: Thanx! That turned out to be the one remaining function I forgot to
use! I found the error (or in this case, an embedded MySQL error within
a query string of an unincludeable file)

Phil