How can errors be effectively debugged in PHP scripts without receiving error messages?

To effectively debug PHP scripts without receiving error messages, you can use error_reporting to suppress errors from being displayed on the screen. This way, you can still log errors to a file or handle them in a custom way without disrupting the user experience.

// Set error reporting level to only log errors
error_reporting(E_ALL & ~E_NOTICE & ~E_WARNING);

// Log errors to a file
ini_set('log_errors', 1);
ini_set('error_log', '/path/to/error.log');

// Your PHP script goes here