Re: Shouldn't script errors show in my browser?

On Fri, 17 Oct 2003 11:29:41 -0400, you wrote: >I hope this question is not too stupid! When I have an error in my script, >it seems to me that the web server, or in my case the php CGI module I am >using for testing, should send something back to my browser displaying an >error message. Instead, I can write any garbage I would like in my php >script and the browser just shows me a blank page. Is this because I am >running php as a CGI module? Try cranking your error reporting level up in php.ini http://uk2.php.net/manual/en/ref.errorfunc.php#ini.error-reporting Check the display_errors directive while you're at it. Don't forget to restart the webserver. Also, sometimes errors don't show because they're embedded in HTML. Eg <font face="<? echo($fake_variable); ?>"> would return <font face="<br /><b>Notice</b>: Undefined variable: fake_variable in <b>file.php</b> on line <b>1</b><br />"> And you'll have to examine the un-parsed HTML to find the error.