This is the first “Beginners’ Corner” article, designed to help new PHP programmers in their quest to become veteran PHP programmers. In this initial installment we’ll look at a few things which are best avoided, but for various reasons often become habits of new PHP users who do not yet know better. Many of these [...]
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Beginners’ Corner: The Dreaded Blank Page
[2008/07/15: Added this to the "Beginners' Corner" category]
A common problem I see new PHP users running into is having a script output absolutely nothing: the dreaded “blank page” syndrome. This is normally due to a syntax error of some sort generating a fatal parse error. As this error is generated before any of the script [...]
