php - White screen of death!

Question

After debugging a codeigniter app that were installed into a new development environment, I have started to freak out when seeing white screens with nothing more available. I have been able to solve each and every one of the errors that have caused this, but it have taken seriously way too long time.

PHP error_reporting(E_ALL) & display_errors", 1 is set as well. I even installed Xdebug in hope of getting more output, but no. My logging settings are also working, but nothing is written to the log.

Is there a way to get something informative printed out instead of a complete white screen? It would certainly shorten my time spent on solving the eventual errors that causes this?

Thanks a lot!

Reference: Why does Code Igniter give me a white page?

Answer 1

If there's a fatal compilation error, then you may well get a blank page. Try doing a

php -l <filename.php>

against your script