Shouldn't script errors show in my browser?

I hope this question is not too stupid! When I have an error in my script,
it seems to me that the web server, or in my case the php CGI module I am
using for testing, should send something back to my browser displaying an
error message. Instead, I can write any garbage I would like in my php
script and the browser just shows me a blank page. Is this because I am
running php as a CGI module?

Thanks,

Rich

Yeah, that did it, thanks

"David Otton" <phpmail@jawbone.freeserve.co.uk> wrote in message
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> On Fri, 17 Oct 2003 11:29:41 -0400, you wrote:
>
> >I hope this question is not too stupid! When I have an error in my
script,
> >it seems to me that the web server, or in my case the php CGI module I am
> >using for testing, should send something back to my browser displaying an
> >error message. Instead, I can write any garbage I would like in my php
> >script and the browser just shows me a blank page. Is this because I am
> >running php as a CGI module?
>
> Try cranking your error reporting level up in php.ini
>
> http://uk2.php.net/manual/en/ref.err...rror-reporting
>
> Check the display_errors directive while you're at it. Don't forget to
> restart the webserver.
>
> Also, sometimes errors don't show because they're embedded in HTML.
>
> Eg
>
> <font face="<? echo($fake_variable); ?>">
>
> would return
>
> <font face="<br /><b>Notice</b>: Undefined variable: fake_variable in
> <b>file.php</b> on line <b>1</b><br />">
>
> And you'll have to examine the un-parsed HTML to find the error.