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Nov 08.2005

My company recently installed PHP on an IIS server for me to work off of. However, no PHP errors are showing up even if I intentionally make a mistake. Just a blank screen comes up. Does anyone know if a separate module has to be installed or perhaps just an option that needs to be turned on?

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@bokehNov 08.2005 — Error checking needs to be activated in php.ini. With apache servers it can also be turned on from the virtual server or .htaccess but I don't know if similar is possible on your windows server.

It is also possible to activate this from inside the script as follows:
[code=php]ini_set('display_errors', '1');
error_reporting(E_ALL);[/code]
But this is not as helpful as it at first may seem. Calling this from a script means only runtime errors can be displayed. The reason: if the script contains a parse error the lines I posted above will not get to the point of being interpreted and hence no error message will be displayed.
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@ephmynusauthorNov 08.2005 — Thanks for your help. Does anyone know the best place to go for a full rundown of php.ini options? It also appears that I cannot upload files or create files and I'm not sure which options those are.
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@bokehNov 08.2005 — [URL=http://php.net]In the manual![/URL]
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@UbikNov 08.2005 — Just a side note, which may help someone else in the future:

View the source for your error message, it may not have rendered the code correctly in the browser, forcing the browser to stop displaying content.

Usually at the very bottom of your source code, there will be the error message you are looking for, for server side errors.
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@bokehNov 08.2005 — Just a side note, which may help someone else in the future:

View the source for your error message, it may not have rendered the code correctly in the browser, forcing the browser to stop displaying content.

Usually at the very bottom of your source code, there will be the error message you are looking for, for server side errors.[/QUOTE]I've never heard of that one. Sounds like an IE idiosynracy to me. [URL=http://getfirefox.com/]Firefox[/URL] always seems to display any error message sent by PHP.
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@PanKNov 08.2005 — If there is no corect HTML Firefox won't display anything as well as Explorer.
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@bokehNov 08.2005 — If there is no corect HTML Firefox won't display anything as well as Explorer.[/QUOTE]You have me completely baffled now! Can you provide an example string that Firefox can't display?
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@PanKNov 08.2005 — Can you provide an example that Explorer doesn't display and FireFox does?
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@bokehNov 08.2005 — Can you provide an example that Explorer doesn't display and FireFox does?[/QUOTE]Here's a [URL=http://bokehman.com/little_test]little test[/URL] (not tested in IE because I never use it).
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@SheldonNov 08.2005 — Here's a [URL=http://bokehman.com/little_test]little test[/URL] (not tested in IE because I never use it).[/QUOTE]


Can IE display this?[/quote]
I got Results in Safari, Firefox and Camino(all for MacOSX).

But using IE(for MacOSX) i got nothing! (i downloaded just for this test, and deleted it just as quick)
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@pointfiftyaeNov 08.2005 — Indeed invisible under IE... How did you do that?
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