Comments on: Beginners’ Corner: The Dreaded Blank Page http://www.charles-reace.com/blog/2008/06/29/the-dreaded-blank-page/ Charles Reace's blog about PHP, MySQL, and life in general Mon, 22 Aug 2011 17:18:05 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Znupi http://www.charles-reace.com/blog/2008/06/29/the-dreaded-blank-page/comment-page-1/#comment-9 Znupi Mon, 04 Aug 2008 00:51:18 +0000 http://charles-reace.com/blog/2008/06/29/the-dreaded-blank-page/#comment-9 Aah, I see. I remember when I first started learning PHP and I used some AMP setup (I think <a href="http://apache2triad.net/" rel="nofollow">apache2triad</a> -- now I used <a href="http://apachefriends.org/" rel="nofollow">XAMPP</a> both on Windows and Linux, much better and simpler) which was set by default to not display any errors. I was so frustrated searching for a missing semicolon for hours. Until my brother told me about the configuration directives and man, was that a relief! :-) Aah, I see. I remember when I first started learning PHP and I used some AMP setup (I think apache2triad — now I used XAMPP both on Windows and Linux, much better and simpler) which was set by default to not display any errors. I was so frustrated searching for a missing semicolon for hours. Until my brother told me about the configuration directives and man, was that a relief! :-)

]]> By: cwreace http://www.charles-reace.com/blog/2008/06/29/the-dreaded-blank-page/comment-page-1/#comment-6 cwreace Wed, 16 Jul 2008 21:21:52 +0000 http://charles-reace.com/blog/2008/06/29/the-dreaded-blank-page/#comment-6 Hi, Znupi. The difference is that if the error reporting settings are in the actual PHP file in question, they will only affect how run-time errors are reported. However, any parse errors will not be affected, because parse errors are generated <i>before</i> any commands - including <code>ini_set()</code> and <code>error_reporting()</code> - are actually executed. Hi, Znupi.

The difference is that if the error reporting settings are in the actual PHP file in question, they will only affect how run-time errors are reported. However, any parse errors will not be affected, because parse errors are generated before any commands – including ini_set() and error_reporting() – are actually executed.

]]> By: Znupi http://www.charles-reace.com/blog/2008/06/29/the-dreaded-blank-page/comment-page-1/#comment-4 Znupi Wed, 16 Jul 2008 19:01:51 +0000 http://charles-reace.com/blog/2008/06/29/the-dreaded-blank-page/#comment-4 Isn't that simply the same as putting the ini_set and error_reporting function calls at the very beginning of the broken file? Isn’t that simply the same as putting the ini_set and error_reporting function calls at the very beginning of the broken file?

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