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

Yeah, that did it, thanks "David Otton" <phpmail@jawbone.freeserve.co.uk> wrote in message news:6630pvgtq9v0dls6loj56spko3664hh4qe@4ax.com... > 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-reportingîÒŠ¸þ§ > ·`FÝvE„ > > 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.