No Parse Error???

[Napster]

I am currently making a site for a client on their own server, but whenever I am supposed to get a Parse Error, nothing appears just a blank page so trying to find the problem is a major *****. How can I turn Parse Errors back on?

[tekky]

a search for "error" here or php.net would likely turn up multiple instances of [man]error_reporting/man

[Napster]

I tried the following:

ini_set('error_reporting', E_ALL);
ini_set('error_reporting', 1);
error_reporting(1);
error_reporting(E_ALL);
and
error_reporting(E_PARSE);

and I am still not getting a Parse Error Message to appear.