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Getting blank screen - I went back into the php.ini file (see below) to double check it. 

 

I set the following and removed the ";" so that they aren't commented out:

display_startup_errors = On
display_errors = On
error_reporting  =  E_ALL

Isn't this all I really have to do?  What else could be the problem here?  I did read somewhere that you have to restart the servers for changes to take effect - I did that twice already...  Any other ideas?

 

 

**BELOW = The entire Error handling section excerpted from my php.ini file.

;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;
; Error handling and logging ;
;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;

; error_reporting is a bit-field.  Or each number up to get desired error
; reporting level
; E_ALL             - All errors and warnings
; E_ERROR           - fatal run-time errors
; E_WARNING         - run-time warnings (non-fatal errors)
; E_PARSE           - compile-time parse errors
; E_NOTICE          - run-time notices (these are warnings which often result
;                     from a bug in your code, but it's possible that it was
;                     intentional (e.g., using an uninitialized variable and
;                     relying on the fact it's automatically initialized to an
;                     empty string)
; E_CORE_ERROR      - fatal errors that occur during PHP's initial startup
; E_CORE_WARNING    - warnings (non-fatal errors) that occur during PHP's
;                     initial startup
; E_COMPILE_ERROR   - fatal compile-time errors
; E_COMPILE_WARNING - compile-time warnings (non-fatal errors)
; E_USER_ERROR      - user-generated error message
; E_USER_WARNING    - user-generated warning message
; E_USER_NOTICE     - user-generated notice message
;
; Examples:
;
;   - Show all errors, except for notices
;
;error_reporting = E_ALL & ~E_NOTICE
;
;   - Show only errors
;
;error_reporting = E_COMPILE_ERROR|E_ERROR|E_CORE_ERROR
;
;   - Show all errors except for notices
;
error_reporting  =  E_ALL

; Print out errors (as a part of the output).  For production web sites,
; you're strongly encouraged to turn this feature off, and use error logging
; instead (see below).  Keeping display_errors enabled on a production web site
; may reveal security information to end users, such as file paths on your Web
; server, your database schema or other information.
;display_errors = Off   <==Original line here, below I changed it to turn on display errors
display_errors = On

; Even when display_errors is on, errors that occur during PHP's startup
; sequence are not displayed.  It's strongly recommended to keep
; display_startup_errors off, except for when debugging.
display_startup_errors = On

; Log errors into a log file (server-specific log, stderr, or error_log (below))
; As stated above, you're strongly advised to use error logging in place of
; error displaying on production web sites.
log_errors = On

; Set maximum length of log_errors. In error_log information about the source is
; added. The default is 1024 and 0 allows to not apply any maximum length at all.
log_errors_max_len = 1024

; Do not log repeated messages. Repeated errors must occur in same file on same
; line until ignore_repeated_source is set true.
ignore_repeated_errors = Off

; Ignore source of message when ignoring repeated messages. When this setting 
; is On you will not log errors with repeated messages from different files or
; sourcelines.
ignore_repeated_source = Off

; If this parameter is set to Off, then memory leaks will not be shown (on
; stdout or in the log). This has only effect in a debug compile, and if 
; error reporting includes E_WARNING in the allowed list
report_memleaks = On

; Store the last error/warning message in $php_errormsg (boolean).
track_errors = Off

; Disable the inclusion of HTML tags in error messages.
;html_errors = Off
  
; If html_errors is set On PHP produces clickable error messages that direct 
; to a page describing the error or function causing the error in detail.
; You can download a copy of the PHP manual from http://www.php.net/docs.php 
; and change docref_root to the base URL of your local copy including the
; leading '/'. You must also specify the file extension being used including 
; the dot.
;docref_root = "/phpmanual/"
;docref_ext = .html
  
; String to output before an error message.
;error_prepend_string = "<font color=ff0000>"

; String to output after an error message.
;error_append_string = "</font>"

; Log errors to specified file.
error_log = "/Applications/MAMP/logs/php_error.log"

; Log errors to syslog (Event Log on NT, not valid in Windows 95).
;error_log = syslog


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I did edit the php.ini file within MAMP, however, I discovered that there are 2 locations where different php.ini files are located!!!

 

I just actually did some additional research and people were having the same issue as me:

 

From:  http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14581460/mamp-really-wont-display-errors

 

"MAMP was reading from /MAMP/bin/php/5.4.4, I was editing /MAMP/conf/php/5.4.4. What a pain!"
 
And I completely agree with their last statement!  ;)
 
Hope this helps somebody else...  (Make sure to edit the file associated with the version of PHP you are running.  I'm running PHP5.4.10 and when I edited that it finally worked).  Make sure to also stop the servers that are running in MAMP, and then restart them.  Once I did this, it worked:
 

Warning: require(../mysqli_connect.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /Applications/MAMP/htdocs/PHP_MYSQL/login.php on line 14

Fatal error: require(): Failed opening required '../mysqli_connect.php' (include_path='.:/Applications/MAMP/bin/php/php5.4.10/lib/php') in /Applications/MAMP/htdocs/PHP_MYSQL/login.php on line 14
 
 
 
I've never been so happy to see error messages.
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