[RESOLVED] cannot trace errors using error_reporting(), print, echo, var_dump(), etc.

[ppowell]

I am trying to debug an error found somewhere within my suite of scripts. Nothing shows up when there's an error, it just simply dies. I tried using error_reporting(E_ALL); to no avail. I tried everything I could think of to get some kind of error to show up, to date nothing shows up. Even trace statements like var_dump(), echo, print_r(), print, all fail, it dies without even showing any trace elements, even at the beginning of the first file called!

<?php
/*****************************************************
        editpage.php -- edit page components
*****************************************************/

// /usr/local/plesk/apache/vhosts/oconsulting.net/httpdocs
error_reporting(E_ALL);
print_r("1<P>");
// include libraries
require ("/var/www/lib/lib.inc");
var_dump($libdir); // WHAT IS THE LIBRARY DIRECTORY NAME?
print_r("2<P>");
var_dump($userincludes);
require ("$userincludes/macros.inc");
print_r("3<P>");

?>

Help!

Phil

[visualAd]

At which line does it die? Find out. Then trawl through the included script. You can put a line like:

die('here');

If you see the text "here" in the browser you know that the script got to that point without failing. You will then need to keep moving it down the lincuded scritp until you find the line thats killing it.

My guess is that a line of code is crashing the interpreter. Those are the hardest problems to pin down.

[ppowell]

I never found out what line it died, it died putting

<?php
 die('here');
 // REST OF SCRIPT
?>

As the very first line. Someone else suggested this and this worked:

ini_set('display_errors', true);

And that did the trick! Thanx though!

Phil