I'd make a backup of cake/libs/controller/controller.php then have a good look at loadModel(). Set debug = 2 and add some Debugger::log() statements here and there.
Might you have a forgotten die() statement anywhere in your own code? On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 9:20 AM, Rich<r...@busyrich.com> wrote: > > Ok, this is going to be a long post, so let me begin at when this all > started. This is a project for work, and what it essentially does is > generate reports using Cake and a PDF generator. Now, it is ready to > go live, and to get all that started we moved it to a dev server to > test it before we put it fully live. I had been developing the app on > my PC using WAMP for a while, inside a windows environment. The app > moved from my local development platform of WAMP on windows to a Linux > development server the company has. > > As with any application, it never goes the way you want, but this time > is was completely weird what happened. After gettting all the basics > such as Mod Rewrite and whatnot to work, I noticed something. All you > every get was a blank page. Nothing, no body, no head, nothing. Like > any good developer, I checked all the logs. There are no errors in the > php log, no apache errors, not even anything out of the ordinary in > the Apache access log (typical mod rewrite access stuff was there). > > So, I decided to go through my code, and I began commenting things > out. The problem seemed to disappear if I commented out the $uses > array, giving you basically: $uses = array(); Immediately, it became > clear that something was wrong with one of my models. I commented out > the model names in the $uses array one by one, and they all seemed to > give me a blank page. It is crazy how you can comment out the models > in your app and everything seems to work. No matter what model you > use, they all cause a completely blank page. Just to be sure, however, > I keep one model on and cleared out its contents, given me a blank > model, it still gave me a blank page. > > I have spent the better part of a week trying to fix this issue, > spending most of that time trying various "blank page" fixes around > the internet, both php and cakephp solution. Here are just some of the > solutions I tried: > > -Deleted all the App Cahce in the Cake App Cache Folder > -Checked every file for space after the PHP tags > -Checked all the logs for errors: PHP, Cake, and Apache show nothing > - Tried CakePHP Testing, Didn't really work that well, or help me find > an issue > -Looked at Blank page tickets over at the CakePHP Trac and This google > group > -Searched Google for Blank Page solutions, went through pages upon > pages with no solution > > Now, keep in mind that I can get my app to show up as long as I don't > use any models. As soon as I include a model with the $uses array, I > get a blank page. It was suggested that it was linux being pick about > case sensitive files names, but if that was the case, then it would > never work. > > I am also aware of using PDF generaters can cause blank pages, and > trust me, I know what and when to expect such a PDF error. I have been > working on this app for a couple of months, and with Cake longer than > that. This is something I have never seen before, and something I > can't seem to find anyone else having an issue with. The only time I > have ever seen a blank page like this is with Wordpress, and typically > that was because I had a space after the closing PHP tag. > > I wish I could show you some code, but being a work project, I don't > know how much I can show. Hopefully these descriptions help you. The > strangest thing is that I can type random gibberish in most of my > files and get a php error, indicating that php is still working. I > really stuck right now, so any suggestions would help a lot. I am not > a cake expert, but I am quite experienced in php and the web. > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "CakePHP" group. To post to this group, send email to cake-php@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to cake-php+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
