How can PHP developers redirect or handle warnings and errors more effectively in their scripts?

To handle warnings and errors more effectively in PHP scripts, developers can use error handling functions like `set_error_handler()` to customize error handling behavior. By defining a custom error handler function, developers can redirect errors to log files, display custom error messages, or take other appropriate actions based on the error type. 

// Custom error handler function
function customErrorHandler($errno, $errstr, $errfile, $errline) {
    // Log the error to a file
    error_log("Error: [$errno] $errstr in $errfile on line $errline", 3, "error.log");
    // Display a custom error message
    echo "An error occurred. Please try again later.";
}

// Set the custom error handler
set_error_handler("customErrorHandler");

// Trigger a warning to test the custom error handler
trigger_error("This is a warning", E_USER_WARNING);

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