There is a way of doing the same as option explicit in PHP
ITs called error_reporting
You can either set it in the php.ini file or you can set it in the top of your scripts, (you may not have access to your php.ini file)
To do what you want then add the following code to the top of a php file
error_reporting (E_ALL);
more info can be found here
http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.error-reporting.php