blank page with compiler errors

Anon

no matter what i try, whenever php errors out, instead of getting a page with errors on it, i get a blank page with the standard header:
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
<HEAD>
<META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=windows-1252"></HEAD>
<BODY></BODY>

i ran phpinfo(), and confirmed that error reporting was on for everything but warnings, and that html_errors was on. since i can't tell what my script is doing wrong, i have to guess constantly (usually it turns out to be syntax errors, but occasionally im forced to give up on the current project). any ideas?

Anon

Do you put @ before statements that could cause errors ? The @ blocks any erroroutputting ...

I can only guess, but I heard that the SWFLib smashes your error reporting ... If you have the SWFLib installed maybe thats the reason, use Ming instead !

Maybe you could define a custom error handler and look what values you get ... http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.set-error-handler.php

hope that helps
Rob

Anon

well, i figured it out.

error_reporting = E_COMPILE_ERROR|E_ERROR|E_CORE_ERROR ;

that was what error_reporting was set to when it gave me a blank page. all i did was set it to E_ALL, and magically errors showed up again. warnings too, which was kind of a pain, but i'll only turn it on when im debugging anyway. thanks for the help!