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Posted on 2007-11-26
Recently, I have run into scripts that would not run using PHP and Ajax methodology. Most of the scripts seem to fail silently for whatever reason. I do not get an error in the firebug, apache or php error logs. My question is how can I trouble shoot silent failing scripts? Can anyone recommend any help?
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Put echo statements into the script at various places, to see where it fails.
echo "Step 1 got to here<br>";
echo "Step 2 got to here<br>";
and then run them. As you see which echo statements are executed, you can narrow down the problem.
Another thing to do is take out any @'s on mysql statements. They block the error message from showing.
echo "Step 1 got to here<br>";
echo "Step 2 got to here<br>";
and then run them. As you see which echo statements are executed, you can narrow down the problem.
Another thing to do is take out any @'s on mysql statements. They block the error message from showing.
Also it is good practice to echo out any variables which are returned from elsewhere, just to make sure that it actually returns something.
If you still cannot debug your script, an option may be to write a similar but much simpler version of your script and narrow down on exactly what the problem is.
If you still cannot debug your script, an option may be to write a similar but much simpler version of your script and narrow down on exactly what the problem is.
Mostly it revolves around verifying that the server's response to an XMLHTTPRequest is what you think it is. Firebug has a feature to display these response packets, but I often run the queries directly, either in a browser or from the command line. Doing it in a browser tends to work best when the response is something the browser knows how to display. If you need to test a POST request, a command line tool like curl or wget will probably be easier.
Thank you for the points, but could you tell me for future reference, what else should I have said/done to rate a grade of A?
Well, I did not give you an "A" simply because it was a rather basic responses. Not to say, you were completely off topic but I was looking for something a little more geared towards the topic of Ajax and PHP. Perhaps, it was the question. Next time I will be more specific.
FYI - The comment that I left, was some information my coworker provided me, which I felt was a little more towards Ajax.
FYI - The comment that I left, was some information my coworker provided me, which I felt was a little more towards Ajax.
OK, thanks for the reply. May I suggest in the future, you give a little more indication of your level of expertise or answer you are looking for. We get a lot of very "basic" questions on here, and when the questioner sounds like someone who doesn't know where to start, "basic" answers are often best. You did describe yourself as "Beginner on this subject". :)
Cheers.
Cheers.
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