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[jon baer]

here is what i would test:

* design an index.php page that simply connects + selects a table from
phpbb_(table) with a simple query like "select username from phpbb_users"
... if it works you know the db is ok.

* the problem probably lies in the /template area, do the default subSilver
templates work ok?  if so, then try debugging the templates making sure that
overall_header + overall_footer match up and table tags are properly closed.

- jon

----- Original Message -----
From: "D C Krook" <dkrook at hotmail.com>
To: <talk at lists.nyphp.org>
Sent: Wednesday, September 24, 2003 10:48 PM
Subject: [nycphp-talk] Debugging phpBB: blank page


> Hello all,
>
> I'm having some trouble debugging a client's phpBB system.
>
> All the tables under a 'phpbb' database seem to be set up, and all the
files
> for managing the forum are in place.  I have confirmed this by
> 'mysqldump'ing his database and source'ing it into mine, and copying his
> files to my local machine; everything works for me locally.
>
> The problem that he is seeing is that he gets a blank page on what should
be
> the forum homepage.  Here are the steps I've taken to isolate the problem
to
> no avail:
>
> - set error_reporting(E_ALL);
> - added the following to the .htaccess in the directory (httpd.conf is
> configured to allow me to do this) php_value error_reporting 7
> - tailed the Apache error_log
> - scanned httpd.conf for access restrictions.  I can echo text on this
index
> page.
> - separately tested for globals and noted that they were on, I was able to
> toggle this in .htaccess with the following flag: php_value
register_globals
> 1
> - stripped the ampersand suppression of mysql errors in the database
> abstraction class.
> - successfully used the stock phpMyAdmin from his host, under his webroot,
> to connect to this database.
> - connected to MySQL via the command line client as root, the default site
> user, and the phpBB user.
> - Googled for "blank page phpBB", which throws up a lot of false hits
> because phpBB is the default forum for many online PHP related discussions
> of blank pages.
> - Perused the Knowledge Base at http://phpbb.com/kb/
>
>
> I'm not quite sure what other tests I can carry out to isolate the
problem.
> Is there anything obvious that I'm missing?
>
> Thanks for any and all help in advance,
> -Dan
>
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