PHP’s white screen of death

posted by John Lampard on Monday, 28 July, 2008 to the technology subset

An explanation of the so-called “white screen of death”, something I see a bit of while logged in to Facebook, to name one example. Especially common to websites, or applications, that are PHP powered… which, hmm, includes disassociated.

A web application powered by the scripting language PHP will display an empty white page in the browser under certain conditions. If the PHP installation suppresses error messages and encounters a fatal error before any output is produced, PHP will exit and return an HTTP response without content.

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