PHP5 and some kind of diagnostics

[Harley]

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

[Tom]

Re: PHP5 and some kind of diagnostics

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:[color=blue]
> 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[/color]

[Harley]

Re: PHP5 and some kind of diagnostics

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
news:1150303995 .781435.255320@ u72g2000cwu.goo glegroups.com.. .[color=blue]
> What's your error reporting setting? See:
>
> http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.errorfunc.php
>
> and
>
> http://www.php.net/manual/en/functio...-reporting.php
>
> Tom
>
>
> Harley wrote:[color=green]
>> 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[/color]
>[/color]

[Tom]

Re: PHP5 and some kind of diagnostics

Also worth noting, the set_error_handl er function is great if you want
to customize your error reporting. See the comments on the php.net
for some ideas.

Tom


Harley wrote:[color=blue]
> 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
> news:1150303995 .781435.255320@ u72g2000cwu.goo glegroups.com.. .[color=green]
> > What's your error reporting setting? See:
> >
> > http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.errorfunc.php
> >
> > and
> >
> > http://www.php.net/manual/en/functio...-reporting.php
> >
> > Tom
> >
> >
> > Harley wrote:[color=darkred]
> >> 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[/color]
> >[/color][/color]