Error messages... or lack of

[Tezread]

I was wondering why is is possible not to have any error messages or echoed debugging statements come up even when you use:

error_reporting(E_ALL);
ini_set('display_errors', '1');

at the top of your script

With or without this i get no feedback about syntax issues. I am trying to test the following but cannot due to lack of feedback

<?php
error_reporting(E_ALL); 
ini_set('display_errors', '1'); 
include("include/session.php");
require_once('common_functions.php'); 
$_SESSION['form1_data']= $_POST;
$username = $_SESSION['username']; 
include("connect.php");

// build main query from form 
	$sql = "INSERT INTO sp_profile SET spprofile_id =  NULL ";

foreach ($_SESSION['form1_data'] as $col =>$val ){
		if($col <> 'submit'){

	if ($col=='subcat'){
	//ignore and  process later below for seperate table insert
	}
	elseif ($col=='location'){
	//ignore and  process later below for seperate table insert
	}
	elseif ($col=='industry'){
	//ignore and  process later below for seperate table insert
	}

//////////////////////////////////
mysql_query($sql, $connection) or die(mysql_error()); 

//get last insert id
$sql ="select LAST_INSERT_ID() as id from sp_profile";
$result = mysql_query($sql, $connection) or die(mysql_error()); 
$row=mysql_fetch_array($result);
$id = $row['id'];
//update subcategory table
if($_SESSION['form1_data']['subcat']){
foreach($_SESSION['form1_data']['subcat'] as  $fvalue){
	$sql ="INSERT INTO sp_subcategory SET spsubcategory_id = NULL , spprofile_id = '$id', subcategory_id = '$fvalue' ";

	mysql_query($sql, $connection) or die(mysql_error()); 

	}
	}

// update location table
if($_SESSION['form1_data']['location']){
foreach($_SESSION['form1_data']['location'] as  $fvalue){
		$sql ="INSERT INTO sp_location SET splocation_id = NULL , spprofile_id = '$id', location_id  = '$fvalue' ";
		mysql_query($sql, $connection) or die(mysql_error()); 

	}
	}

// update industry table
if($_SESSION['form1_data']['industry']){
foreach($_SESSION['form1_data']['industry'] as  $fvalue){
		$sql ="INSERT INTO sp_industry SET spindustry_id = NULL , spprofile_id = '$id', industry_id  = '$fvalue' ";
		mysql_query($sql, $connection) or die(mysql_error()); 

	}
	}

?>

Without error message feedback - even basic stuff like undefined errors or lack of ';' or '{' cannot be recognised.

Cany anyone tell me why?

[bradgrafelman]

Fatal errors are errors that prevented PHP from parsing the code. If your script has a fatal error, PHP halted the compilation of your script before it executed anything (it has to compile the entire script before it starts executing it). As such, the ini_set() statements were never actually executed. In other words, PHP uses the values in the php.ini file efor those two directives since it never executed your command to change them.

I've run into the same issue before - you can see warnings and notices just fine, because they don't actually halt compilation/execution of the script.

[Tezread]

what is wrong with my script that is stopping any output?

[Piranha]

The best way is probably to run it on the development server with settings in php.ini to detect errors, then you will get the errors.

I would count the numbers of { and }, it might help you out...

[bradgrafelman]

These lines:

foreach ($_SESSION['form1_data'] as $col =>$val ){ 
        if($col <> 'submit'){ 

don't have matching '}' closing braces.