a blank page instead of a parse error

Is this something I overlooked when upgrading from PHP 4 to PHP 5?

If I write a script with a mistake in it (an extra parenthesis),

<?php
echo "This is a php-script";
{
?>

PHP 4 gives an error message:
Parse error: parse error, unexpected $ in /server/apache/htdocs/errormessage.php on line 3

PHP 5 returns an absolutely blank page. This is quite inconvenient, when trying to locate something extra or someting missing in a 300 line script.

I could not find any mention of this in the PHP manual in the chapter which dealt with changes in migrating from 4 to 5.

 

Check your php.ini file. Make sure you have error reporting on and set to E_ALL

 

Hi,

Php 5 is not showing errors as you have to configure it

If you are working on linux Box then you have to configure error system in this file
/etc/php.ini

Thanks

 

If u dont find your php.ini at those locations...

put a php file with
<?
phpinfo();
?>
and grab the location from there... also
u might wanna check the same directory for a error_log it might go there

 

are you running php4 and php5 both in local server. did you restart http apache server?

 

Make sure you have display_errors set to on in php.ini.

 

or you can just place error_reporting(E_ALL); at the top of the PHP file to display errors.
If this is a shared box you dont want error reporting always on.

 

If display_errors = off, php will not show the errors even if you have set error_reporting to E_ALL.

 

mwasif, my reply was to the initial posting as an offset to making changes in php.ini for error reporting as not everyone has access to it.
You could also activate it through .htaccess if the server allows it as well as allowing display_errors.