Any zend extension loaded?

I found that error_log directive works fine until directive error_reporting is set to "E_ALL | E_STRICT". Than it behaves as described.

I tried it with and withou ZendDebugger. Same result.

Extension list taken from php.ini:
;extension=php_bz2.dll
extension=php_curl.dll
;extension=php_dba.dll
;extension=php_dbase.dll
;extension=php_exif.dll
;extension=php_fdf.dll
extension=php_gd2.dll
extension=php_gettext.dll
;extension=php_gmp.dll
;extension=php_ifx.dll
;extension=php_imap.dll
;extension=php_interbase.dll
;extension=php_ldap.dll
extension=php_mbstring.dll
;extension=php_mcrypt.dll
;extension=php_mhash.dll
;extension=php_mime_magic.dll
;extension=php_ming.dll
;extension=php_msql.dll
;extension=php_mssql.dll
extension=php_mysql.dll
extension=php_mysqli.dll
;extension=php_oci8.dll
;extension=php_openssl.dll
extension=php_pdo.dll
;extension=php_pdo_firebird.dll
;extension=php_pdo_mssql.dll
;extension=php_pdo_mysql.dll
;extension=php_pdo_oci.dll
;extension=php_pdo_oci8.dll
;extension=php_pdo_odbc.dll
;extension=php_pdo_pgsql.dll
;extension=php_pdo_sqlite.dll
extension=php_pgsql.dll
;extension=php_pspell.dll
;extension=php_shmop.dll
;extension=php_snmp.dll
;extension=php_soap.dll
;extension=php_sockets.dll
extension=php_sqlite.dll
;extension=php_sybase_ct.dll
extension=php_tidy.dll
;extension=php_xmlrpc.dll
extension=php_xsl.dll
extension=php_zip.dll

Ah, it does not crash but your script has certainly some warnings or notices breaking your script.

Enable the log and read them, it will show what's wrong

Well, the script is calling only phpinfo(). So I wouldn't be so certain about errors or notices inside the script.

When I turn off E_STRICT, there is nothing in the error log. No error, no notices. When I turn it on, I couldn't finish the script, so I couldn't report content of my error_log - file is created, but no messages.

Magic circle...

I turned E_STRICT on and tried to report to syslog. This error I've already seen reported. But it doesn't explain why there is nothing in error log and why php crashes. I've got same php.ini before (E_ALL | E_STRICT enabled with error_log file) and it worked as expected.

Message from syslog:
PHP Strict Standards:  phpinfo() [<a href='function.phpinfo'>function.phpinfo</a>]: It is not safe to rely on the system's timezone settings. Please use the date.timezone setting, the TZ environment variable or the date_default_timezone_set() function. In case you used any of those methods and you are still getting this warning, you most likely misspelled the timezone identifier. We selected 'Europe/Paris' for '2.0/DST' instead in D:\Apache\htdocs\example.php on line 2.

Thank you for this bug report. To properly diagnose the problem, we
need a backtrace to see what is happening behind the scenes. To
find out how to generate a backtrace, please read
http://bugs.php.net/bugs-generating-backtrace.php for *NIX and
http://bugs.php.net/bugs-generating-backtrace-win32.php for Win32

Once you have generated a backtrace, please submit it to this bug
report and change the status back to "Open". Thank you for helping
us make PHP better.

After setting correct timzeone to php.ini, everything works fine. That solved my problem.

My opinion is that php still behaves incorrectly when crashes without a message in this situation:
- error_log = <filename>
- error_reporting E_ALL | E_STRICT
- timezone not set

Ok, due to the infinite loop in this case. We have another bug report about that. Thanks for your feedback!