White Screen of Death

[pbrooks]

Hi all,
Something I've been noticing recently is an increase of the ability to get a white screen of death from Contao during development.

I've got all error reporting on, including E_ALL. Say I put a syntax error by putting a random character in index.php it'll throw up an error.

However if I put a syntax error in a module file, the error doesn't appear and a WSOD does.

Wondering if anyone else is experiencing this?

[ramjet]

yeah, pretty often.
its usually (in my case anyway) caused by missing out a fullstop between a variable and a string.
eg: 'hello' $name;

[pbrooks]

At least it's not me, could of been occurring for a long time but it's certainly something which can halt development and waste a lot of time debugging.

I'd assume the various includes for rendering a module are suppressing the errors, before I look into un-supressing, anyone got any tips?

yeah, pretty often.
its usually (in my case anyway) caused by missing out a fullstop between a variable and a string.
eg: 'hello' $name;

[wotanskrieg]

I got this error on one of the server. When you login to BE I just print the white screen.

Have anyone experience this?

[thyon]

this is a problem with your config/config.php file.

You can EASILY find a solution with line number etc by simply running the config.php file directly. It will parse the file and tell you if there are any errors (instead of via the BE)

[wotanskrieg]

Blah I've set language file to UTF-8 (because of Latin A/B) and than the server didn't handle it.