Posted by Harley on 06/14/06 22:27

Thanks, Tom. Checking those settings in php.ini did reveal the problem.

Curiously, if you set display_errors = On AND log_errors = On, you get
neither rather than both.

Harley

"Tom" <klenwell@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> What's your error reporting setting? See:
>
> http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.errorfunc.php
>
> and
>
> http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.error-reporting.php
>
> Tom
>
>
> Harley wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I've worked with PHP5 for a good while and yet it has one problem that
>> frustrates the hell out of me: when I have syntactic or punctuation
>> errors
>> in a script I get nothing except a blank white page in the browser. No
>> message, nothing in the server logs--nothing at all. I've been
>> programming
>> for 30 years so I know it's not unreasonable to expect some kind of
>> indication or message about WHERE the problem is occuring. I have to
>> debug
>> like I used to in assembly by commenting out chunks until it runs.
>>
>> I run PHP5 as a DSO on Apache 2 with virtual hosts on a Mandrake
>> platform.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Harley
>

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