What are the best practices for handling error logs in PHP to aid in debugging?

To handle error logs in PHP effectively for debugging purposes, it is recommended to log errors to a file instead of displaying them directly to the user, set error reporting level to catch all types of errors, and include relevant information in the error logs such as timestamps and the file where the error occurred. 

// Set error reporting level to catch all types of errors
error_reporting(E_ALL);

// Set error logging to a file for debugging purposes
ini_set('log_errors', 1);
ini_set('error_log', 'error.log');

// Example usage of error_log function
try {
    // Some code that may throw an error
    $result = 1 / 0;
} catch (Exception $e) {
    // Log error message to the error log file
    error_log("Error: " . $e->getMessage());
}

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