Hi, I am just developing a plugin. Upon activation I am getting a Fatal Error message. How can I figure out what that Fatal error is?
If you are developing a plug in, shouldn't you know more about that than us? Can't you see what the error say's and fix the problem? How are you coding a plug in, but don't know how to figure out how to make it work? I suggest you read the codex: http://codex.wordpress.org/Writing_a_Plugin
This is my first plugin I am making. And no I can't see what the error says otherwise I would be able to fix it. Not everyone is as smart as you
Well then let me bring you up to speed. If you don't know what the error is, then neither do we. There are 1000's of possibilities and there is no way that we can guess which one applies to your error. Normally they have a message, or number to the error. You need to go back to basics and make sure that you have done all that you need to , to make it compatible with the latest version of wordpress. The error is obviously in the coding somewhere. Also try to run it alone, without anything else running, to rule out incompatibilities with other plug ins. Bottom line is, "I have an error message, how do I fix it?" is not enough information for anyone to help you. A good start would be to at least show your work so that anyone with knowledge can hopefully see what mistakes you are making that could be causing the error.
Well all I got was the Fatal Error message , no file or line details as you do normally. I tried to do the usual echoing debug text and exiting the script but that wasn't working either. For some reason the exit statement gets completely ignored. So how can I get more details if it doesn't give me details?
I don't know enough to help you, but I do know that if you want someone else to, you are going to have to show them what you are talking about. No one can guess where you made programming or incompatibility errors without seeing the work. If you are asking if there is some script where you can input the code and it will just tell you what's wrong...I don't think so.
Good for you. You could help others by explaining what the problem was and how you fixed it because we still don't know what you were talking about.
Error messages always tell you where the error part is. next time you ran into the same problem and decided to ask it out - paste the error message. That should gave others a hint or two of what might goes wrong. Congrats on sorting it out.