If not, imo they should be. To write clean code and increase efficiency, you need to get rid of all the Warning and Notices. I have tried everything I can think of and I can't get them to show in the log. Any help or guidance?

Some notices are produced by php at compile time, some during run-time.
For example if you call a script with variable A in the URL, and access by mistake to $_GET['B'], there is no tool that would show you the error without running script.
All compile-time notices, warnings and error are recognized by validator and are shown inline in the code and in the log (if run from the menu).

These are runtime Notices and warnings I'm referring to. I get the warnings and errors but cannot produce Notices, no matter what I try. Thanks.

To see notices during debug session, you may want to adjust error level to #4 in the debugger settings.

Thank you SO much!. BTW, where in the documentation did I miss this?

mk:@MSITStore:D:\nusphere46\bin\help\PHPEd.chm::/html/debugger_tab.htm

Error level specifies what type of errors should be shown as popup warnings. All the errors are shown in the Error tab anyway.