Newbie Q: Browser hangs, displays blank page

rSoul

hi,
Complete php newbie question. I'm running Apache 1.3.33 on Mac OS x 10.3.7, running php 5.0.3.

When I add the code below and preview it the browser waits for about 60 seconds, and then displays a blank page. If I open the source there is nothing there. I copied part of the code from a sample to test some stuff. Further experimentation shows that this hanging blank screen crap happens all the time... even if I comment out all the code! is this something really obvious? The apache server error log shows no complaints so I'm stuck. I've searched around but don't see anything that might help. Thanks in advance!

Oh, If I leave only the line phpinfo() on it's own, the page displays correctly.

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<title>test Document</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
</head>
<?php 
echo "You aren't logged in.";
include("login.php");
phpinfo(); 
?>
<body>
test
</body>
</html>

RossC0

Hi,

Its all a matter of debugging...

If you just have this:

<?php 
echo "You aren't logged in.";
include("login.php");
phpinfo(); 
?>

Should show a blank screen..

<?php 
phpinfo(); 
?>

However, works fine...

Then the answer is an error in include("login.php");

I'm guessing its one of two things:
1) Error Reporting has been hidden - but an error has occured.
2) There is some script manipulating headers() But because you've got:
"echo "You aren't logged in.";"
Its causing the error - check out headers in the php manual.

Hope that solves it!

SNP

I believe that you used the default php.ini (without making any changes in it) and it has display_errorsset to Offf.

Search for the display_errors string in your php.ini and set it to display_errors = On.

rSoul

Thanks for the feedback. Yes, errors were hidden in php.ini - thanks!

I opened the same page just now and today it's decided to work.... maybe it was just solar flares, but i'll keep playing and see what happens... hopefully now I'll see more useful errors at least!

Thanks again,
Cheers.