How can PHP developers effectively handle error messages and notifications in their scripts to provide feedback to users?

To effectively handle error messages and notifications in PHP scripts, developers can use functions like `error_reporting()` to control which types of errors are displayed, `ini_set('display_errors', 1)` to show errors on the screen, and `error_log()` to log errors to a file for later review.

// Display errors on the screen
ini_set('display_errors', 1);

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

// Set error reporting level
error_reporting(E_ALL);