php and a blank page

[nexus14]

hi all, i am new here so i appoligise if this is an easy solve.
I have latest php, apache, mysql and my admin, i have two good, books and done all the installations. php info test works fine, printing a simple echo "hello" works, connection to my sql works, i have even got it to work with xhtml encoding.
My problem occurs when i do something else, a simple form for example or a cookie, even if i dont access mysql in anyway also - on loading a page i get nothing, a blank interent explorer, no errors, just notta thing.
And sometime it wants me to download the page instead - ahh help.
More info:
I have Windows Xp Pro, and my head hurts
Thanks

[greg]

When I get blank pages without any errors, I have a syntax error somewhere. Sometimes they are very hard to find. It drives me crazy that I get no error.

Not sure what is happening to you but maybe it is a simple error. Debugging can be a pain.

[*JaH*]

When I get blank pages without any errors, I have a syntax error somewhere. Sometimes they are very hard to find. It drives me crazy that I get no error.

Not sure what is happening to you but maybe it is a simple error. Debugging can be a pain.

You can set in yur php.ini which level of errors to show, if you wanna see all the errors onscreen change it.....otherwise, look in your error.log....all errors are logged

Still debugging is a pain, yur right about that ....dzsoft php editor helps me out alot though

[Redcircle]

I have Windows Xp Pro, and my head hurts

There is a bug with window XP that causes this very problem. make sure you run all the updates for windowsXP. I can't remember if the bug was with apache or PHP.