JayBlake

Thanks for everyone's help but I still have the problem. I'm totally dead in the water 'til I get it solved. Anyone else have any ideas???

error_reporting = E_ALL and is not commented out. display_errors = Off and is not commented out. Sorry if those two additional lines I put in make no sense; I was just following AndyB's suggestion. As you requested, here is all my code (I'm not sure what you meant by "wrapped in code tags", sorry): <?php error_reporting(E_ALL); ini_set('display_errors','On'); if ($original_value = ini_set('display_errors', 'On')) { print "<P>New display_errors value set</P>"; print "<P>Original value: {$original_value}</P>"; } else print "<P>Failed to set display_errors</P>"; echo "this is a good test message"; ?>

Now I put the following lines at the beginning: error_reporting(E_ALL); ini_set('display_errors','On'); and it displays "New display_errors values set" along with a good echo message I put in later. HOWEVER, If I corrupt my good echo message with a typo, I again see nothing at all - a completely blank screen, not even the "New display..." message. It's almost as if getting an error turns off my display_errors settings!

Well, now I've made a tiny bit of progress. I took everything out of my script except for your code and it displays "Failed to set display_errors" (in fact, it does it with the "@" before ini_set or without). So now what do I need to do? And, yes, I do have access to the php.ini file. Should I look for something there?

Thanks, bubblegum, but I put that code in and still it displays nothing.

I'm sorry, I meant they work fine if there aren't any errors. If there are errors I just get that blank screen (I even verified that again). I'm using my Internet Explorer browser to run these; I've never uploaded them to a server.

Thanks. I typed in that exact code, saved it as test.php, opened my browser and again, nothing but a white screen. I didn't save it to the wrong place, either, because my earlier successful scripts that I saved there work just fine.

Thanks for your help but I still don't see any errors after putting in the "error_reporting" line and the "ini_set" line.

I've got a problem so fundamental I can't even say what my error message is because I don't see any errors EVER! If my PHP or MySQL scripts don't work, I just see a blank browser page and have to dig through the code and figure out my problem by brute force. Do I have to set a parameter somewhere or something? I even tried installing a debugger but still I don't see anything (unless it works, of course). I know there is probably a really simple solution but I'm a total newbie to OO programming. Thanks.