Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:72275 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 27591 invoked from network); 5 Feb 2014 14:18:32 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 5 Feb 2014 14:18:32 -0000 Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com smtp.mail=pierre.php@gmail.com; spf=pass; sender-id=pass Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com header.from=pierre.php@gmail.com; sender-id=pass Received-SPF: pass (pb1.pair.com: domain gmail.com designates 209.85.216.44 as permitted sender) X-PHP-List-Original-Sender: pierre.php@gmail.com X-Host-Fingerprint: 209.85.216.44 mail-qa0-f44.google.com Received: from [209.85.216.44] ([209.85.216.44:35576] helo=mail-qa0-f44.google.com) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id 54/98-09402-73842F25 for ; Wed, 05 Feb 2014 09:18:31 -0500 Received: by mail-qa0-f44.google.com with SMTP id w5so592599qac.31 for ; Wed, 05 Feb 2014 06:18:29 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; bh=JqLvskM+FgpuwD7flALEiYyEL9sXaZsbch1aYw5z064=; b=PqD7Sb4IfBWHRPCLBABAazJESlTzAKTv6GDShL2sFa91OkDw+PFg5FBjJlO5YoO7Gr Vt/+6xigBnUWvMFbnDHh8C5M7RGiahuhCxzXUDdzdYDxXS2hRe+Ae+Nz1n8QKGthu0gb xa0neK46sc6JI86mSm1cc9lUKPy2J0eA2WTvAflRihuQL1M/ljrQcklIRPE1ZwsUrZIk +zazy+6qa789vQDcZ2ZYaEvJdQIig+2/P7DP4y+3bJoY957WoIjLuXzIcZTzGeR986AX 7WAje+JUwz/VXiD1RaaQz+Vv86ki884KSIGjsjc1tPm9XI2hN/U9SaR9vRp9eCbQDOZO fAXw== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.224.63.131 with SMTP id b3mr2810016qai.63.1391609909092; Wed, 05 Feb 2014 06:18:29 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.140.18.129 with HTTP; Wed, 5 Feb 2014 06:18:28 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.140.18.129 with HTTP; Wed, 5 Feb 2014 06:18:28 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <52F2452D.1090102@lsces.co.uk> References: <52EF4BF8.60005@sugarcrm.com> <52F14C66.3030806@gmail.com> <52F15B62.1070006@gmail.com> <52F20C7C.3040803@lsces.co.uk> <52F2165E.6040104@lsces.co.uk> <52F23078.4040206@lsces.co.uk> <52F2452D.1090102@lsces.co.uk> Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2014 15:18:28 +0100 Message-ID: To: Lester Caine Cc: PHP internals Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=047d7beb961e4c25e404f1a96e59 Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Declare minimum PHP version required? From: pierre.php@gmail.com (Pierre Joye) --047d7beb961e4c25e404f1a96e59 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 On Feb 5, 2014 3:02 PM, "Lester Caine" wrote: > > Pierre Joye wrote: >> >> With a blank page would a simple user even know that PHP has anything to do with >> why it's blank? >> >> It is not a php problem per se. Php cannot do anything after a fatal error or a >> crash. > > So how do we protect PHP from crashing in such a way that it can actually display an alternate page to the 'white screen of death'? > > >> It takes 5 mins to any admin (7 for non Admin) to setup a default error page, in >> any webserver. And it does exactly what you suggest. > > So why are there so many reports of 'white screen of death' if it is easy to provide something more useful? One of top reasons? Display error on, a warning/notice/whatever is displayed, broke the html/page, showing a "white" page. Which is indeed not empty. > Even the big frameworks seem to have a problem with this. I do not know any big framework having issues with that. --047d7beb961e4c25e404f1a96e59--