zaphoyd

Since surpass now has the php debuggers turned off, have any of you found alternate ways of accessing php's debugger or error logs?

I have over 10000 lines of php code; searching for an error in that is a needle in a haystack given only the information that 'yes there is an error somewhere in there.'

XtremeDesigns

it tells you what line the error was on

zaphoyd

No, it does not; usually it does, but right now it just returns nothing, resulting in a blank white page, try it.. (server: vega)

XtremeDesigns

i dont know what server im on, but this is just 1 of the errors on 1 of my pages

(to prove that it does work some places :lol: )

zaphoyd

yes that is what it has done in the past, but it stopped working now. I recieved the following email from surpass support.

Ok looks like we might have disabled PHP debuging by default, but maybe if you go to www.php.net you might find an option to add to your code so that it debugs by default. If we have any more ways of fixing your problem we will contact you. Thanks.

I looked at everything as far as debugging on php.net, non of the PHP 4 compatible things do anything. I see one function debugger_on but it was dropped in PHP 4. Just wondering if anyone else has had this problem and/or has found a solution.

patrickb

I dont think that is the debug options you are talking about zaphyod.

Try this function:
ini_set("display_errors, "On");

That should fix your problem more than likely. And that can be a big security hole in theory. I would recommend doing your own error handling, and having it write to a log file that you can review. Maybe for quick testing and rewriting code leave it on, but cut it off.

http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.errorfunc.php#ini.display-errors

Has a good example of those to deal with error handling logging....

Patrick

zaphoyd

does ANYBODY else have this problem? can someone else on vega just delete a semicolon somewhere and see what happens.

thanks for your insight patrickb, display_errors is definitely what should be on by default, and obviously, at least for my server, it is not on. I tried that function and several variations of it based on different examples from that page and none of them make any difference.

The following link is an example of the problem. I have removed one semicolon, and it does that instead of helpfully saying looky no semicolon on line xyz like it did 2 days ago.

http://www.zaphoyd.com/projects/signup.php

patrickb

Could you put a phpinfo file on your server somewhere and send me the link.. Ill look through the results and see what I can come up with.

zaphoyd

http://www.zaphoyd.com/projects/phpinfo.php

There ya go patrickb, thanks a bunch in advance.

note: this page clearly shows display_errors as off...