Error reporting help

[nwrfoto]

I'm becoming confused with php error reporting so I hope someone can helm me.

 

Basically I want to see a message when I have an error in my code.

 

For example a simple snippet like this should produce an error:

 

echo "hello world"

echo "hello world 2";

 

 

Without the semi-colon after the first echo i should get an error but what i actually get is a blank page.

 

I have edited the php.ini and restarted the server to confirm that display errors is set to on (was originally off).

 

I have also tried all of the error reporting types: (E_ALL, E_NOTICE etc etc etc)

 

None of them will show an error message with the above type of error, only a blank screen. i do get messages if i do not declare a variable etc but the most common errors (for me at least) are syntax errors such as missing out semi colons or misplacing a bracket etc.

 

How can I see these messages?????

 

 

[Daniel0]

If you set display_errors=On and error_reporting=E_ALL then you should see an error. Otherwise you probably didn't install PHP properly. Does it display something for "valid" PHP scripts?

[nwrfoto]

Valid php scripts work fine.

 

In fact everything works fine except that I have written a long script and cannot find the problem in the code without the error messages.

 

I do NOT want to see messages such as undeclared variables etc but DO want to see those which are stopping the script from running.