How can I get new lines in php error reporting messages?

What kind of errors or warnings are you getting?  Syntax errors usually die after the first one.  

my error reporting is set to E_ALL.  So the warnings are annoyingly difficult to decipher.  

Please post a link to a web page that generates the kind of messages you describe, thanks.

Since you are interested in an answer for the server, I'm going to assume you control the server.  (Have admin access.)

The errors might be easier to read in the error_log file.  On my development computer, the file is in the folder /var/log/httpd
Look at the end of that file.  In Linux, I use the tail command to look at the last few lines.  My log file gives me the line # where the error occurred.  

On my system, the location of the error_log file is defined in /etc/httpd/httpd.conf


There are controls for how php behaves in the php.ini file.  On my development computer, php.ini is in a folder called /etc/httpd

In the meantime, I'm with Ray on this one.  It would really help to see the errors.

The errors are "Notices" and "Warnings", they are not syntactical.  These errors output to the webpage for which the scripts builds after the request is done.  I don't want to look in an error_log file to find out what the error is--I already know what the error is.  I just want the format / display of the errors that appear in my output / echo's to be formatted better.

Thanks!

Would this work for you?

echo "Warning: phone number not specified<br />";
echo "Warning: zip code doesn't match state<br />";

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They would, but there is no way to add br's to errors output by the php parser.  I can't get ahold of the engine that outputs those.  If I could, I would manipulate each string that gets output from there.

Thank you Ray.  This was good.  I hadn't thought of doing that.  I agree that fixing them is better.  But in some cases, I want to be able to decipher the messaging coming from PHP.  This will help.