Re: Declare minimum PHP version required?
| From: | Pierre Joye | Date: | Wed, 05 Feb 2014 14:18:28 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Declare minimum PHP version required? | ||
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On Feb 5, 2014 3:02 PM, "Lester Caine" <lester@lsces.co.uk> wrote:
>
> Pierre Joye wrote:
>>
>> With a blank page would a simple user even know that PHP has anything to
do with
>> why it's blank?
>>
>> It is not a php problem per se. Php cannot do anything after a fatal
error or a
>> crash.
>
> So how do we protect PHP from crashing in such a way that it can actually
display an alternate page to the 'white screen of death'?
>
>
>> It takes 5 mins to any admin (7 for non Admin) to setup a default error
page, in
>> any webserver. And it does exactly what you suggest.
>
> So why are there so many reports of 'white screen of death' if it is easy
to provide something more useful?
One of top reasons? Display error on, a warning/notice/whatever is
displayed, broke the html/page, showing a "white" page. Which is indeed not
empty.
> Even the big frameworks seem to have a problem with this.
I do not know any big framework having issues with that.