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Blank page with no clue as to why !!

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ChrisMacPherson

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I am having a frustrating time trying to figure out why my browsers are displaying a blank page to me when I load up my work.

I am coding a msg board system using php classes and all was going well until this morning when I decided to transfer the work I have done to my external webspace. After doing this, all I get is a blank screen where my site appeared before.

I am getting no error msgs in either my apache err log, in the browser, or in the php error log. I have run through the code many times to find any mistakes but cant find any. The code worked 3 hours ago so I know it works.

If anyone has any ideas I would be very grateful as I am completely stumped, or being a complete idiot. I have been coding php and using this site for a good 4/5 years now.

Thanks

Chris Macp
 
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Hi

Did you sort your problem? I have a very similar one and being a newbie I am getting very depressed about it - it is for my final year project at uni!!!

My system was coming along fine, until suddenly all I get is a blank page when I call it up.

I haven't done anything new or different to cause this. One minute it was working, the next it wasn't. Is this usual for PHP? I'm using PHP 4 and MySql 3.23.

Any brilliant ideas?

Please help.
 
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I could be MAJORLY wrong, but I always thought that it was IE that gernerated
Code: 
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC &quot;-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN&quot;>
<HTML><HEAD>
<META http-equiv=Content-Type content=&quot;text/html; charset=windows-1252&quot;></HEAD>
<BODY></BODY></HTML>

I thought it created that when the server had sent a reply (possibly the header) but hadn't actually sent the source yet.

If you create a simple php script that has that header.inc at the top, does it output anything?
 
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That depends on the browser... Mozilla when veiwing a blank page will still have the head and body tags (even if not served) without a document type definition, because it uses Java's JEditorPane (Netscape and Mozilla being writen in Java and nativly compiled). If Mozilla/Netscape gets any headers it will use the ones it recieves... I assume (though am not certian) that IE will just fail to get anything if nothing is sent.

My guess on why it went blank all of a sudden is that there was only one output point (instead of
Code: 
print
s or
Code: 
echo
s being all over the place; or the PHP script was uploaded, but not all the included files. This is just a guess, but without seeing more of the code that all we can do.
 
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What was the solution, I have the same exact problem I'm on OS X panther with apache and mysql
 
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