First, he taught me that I can't just log in to terminal and pico php.ini. I need to go "sudo pico.ini" which logs me in as a superuser able to edit that file. BUT, my error reporting WAS on, it just wasn't being displayed in the browser. All my errors show up in the "console" utility in apps --> utilities --> Console under "httpd" and then "error_log". Each time I've tried to run scripts I see the errors there. Ah, I will need to work with Console open now going forward.