[SOLVED] php debugging

[Lodius2000]

i recently switched my hosting and seem to have lost a really neat function for php in the process

 

on my old host if there was a problem on a line the page would print, Error on line 20 yadda yadda yadda,

 

my new host does not do that it prints a blank screen if there is an error, not too good for debugging

 

is there a way to turn that feature on or am i SOL

 

ie, this code

<?php

print 'test'
print 'error';

?>

when the page is loaded on my old host it returns

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_PRINT in /home/a3108715/public_html/phpexercises/phperrortest.php on line 4

 

on my new host i get a blank screen

 

thanks for the help

[DarkWater]

error_reporting(E_ALL & ~E_NOTICE);

[Lodius2000]

just put that in the top of the script?

[DarkWater]

Yeah.

[Lodius2000]

that didn't work any other guesses, could it be something in php's configuration?

[DarkWater]

Yeah, it is, and that line is supposed to fix it.  Are you sure you put it JUST like that?  No quotes and stuff.

[Lodius2000]

copy pasted directly to my file,

 

by " it is" does that mean that I need to put it in a config file, if so you might have to walk me through it

[PFMaBiSmAd]

Blank pages are usually the result of fatal parse errors. Since your code is never executed, an error_reporting(...) statement is never executed (you also need to set display_errors on).

 

First of all, you should not be debugging your code on a live server. The development cycle is too slow. Use a personal computer with a web server/php/mysql installed on it.

 

Secondly, you need to set the error_reporting level and set display_errors on in php.ini or a .htaccess file if you want fatal parse errors to be displayed.