On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 4:01 PM, Earnie Boyd
<earnie@users.sourceforge.net> wrote:
John Mitchell wrote:
> I wrote my first php code within a newly created drupal module and I
> got it to work.
>
Firsts are always good.
> Initially it was not working (Drupal would not come up) and I did not
> know what was wrong so started to take out lines until Drupal finally
> came up and that is how I discovered which line had the syntax error.
> Once I knew which line it was I fixed the problem and put it back in
> the code and drupal came up.
>
The hard way to debug it. :)
> My question is in the future if I have this problem again where Drupal
> does not come up because of some php code within a custom module
> erroring off what is a more efficient way for me to detect and fix any
> php syntax errors?
>
Any number of ways. If you're using apache the error would be in the
error.log file. And if you set the php.ini file with a log file or
syslog then it would be there. And then there is the PHP display_errors
setting that can be set in .htaccess or settings.php file.
.htaccess you would add
php_value display_errors 1
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