Runtime Errors Not Showing

Anon

Hey all,

I recently installed Apache2, PHP4.2 on my win2k box as a module. It works fine however say a script has a syntax error all that happens is a blank screen is displayed. No errors are shown and thus it is very hard to debug when I don’t know what the error is, and what line it occurs on. Have I missed some setting when installing apache / PHP? I have tried changing the error reporting levels to no avail. Any more suggestions?

Regards, Scott

Anon

Open up your php.ini file and scroll down to where it says:

;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;
; Error handling and logging ;
;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;

Change:

error_reporting =

To whatever value you would like, it shows examples above it.

Also Change:

display_errors = Off

To:

display_errors = On

That should do it. Just give Apache a good restart and everything should work to your liking.

Anon

Dragon,

you see that is exactly what I did. I also restarted apache, still all to absolutly no outcome.

Ironically enough, notices get output however syntax errors the crutical ones are just met with a blank screen

Anon

an error for example that causes execution to stop and a blank screen is something like

if(isset($HTTP_GET_VARS['whatever']))) <- notice there are to many brackets. Before I installed apache / php manually such an error was shown to me with line number and all

Anon

I'm not quite sure how to help. Just keep fiddiling with the php.ini file is all I can come up with. I think there is a function in php to show errors. But other than that. I'm not sure of a remedy for this problem.