RE: [PHP] displaying database output in a table

From: Philip Thompson > On May 25, 2010, at 8:27 PM, David Mehler wrote: > >> Hello, >> I'm trying to display mysql database output in a formatted table. My >> problem is i'm getting a blank screen with no errors. I've got >> debugging on, and have run the cli php on this file which produces no >> errors either, but neither does it give me any output. >> My eventual goal is to select the two nearest future events to the >> current date. Having done that I want to display the name, location, >> start date, start time, and a summary. Right now though I just want to >> put all information in the database in to a table. >> >> Here's the code. Pointers welcome. >> Thanks. >> Dave. >> >> <?php >> require_once($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] . "/dbconnect.php"); > > I ran into a similar issue yesterday. Tracked it down and figured out > the "required" file did not exist. It didn't show up in my dev > environment b/c I had the file. When we pushed it to QA, the file had > not been uploaded. The require_once() stops execution if the file isn't > found. Try changing it to include_once() and see if you can _any_ output. We struggled with this as well. require terminates the process without any indication of why it stopped. No error, no exception, not even a whimper. Recording a basic "file not found" message in the error log would be a major improvement. Bob McConnell