White pages when I change index.php files. Please help. ;-(

[ExclusiveCA]

White pages when I change index.php files. Please help. ;-(

 

I am starting with a fresh and new database and the newest version. Everytime I try to change the main page (index.php that is in the includes/languages/english) the site simply returns a white page. No error , no partial loads. Just a white screen.

 

I have read some posts, and tried to open the file on my computer with notepad and then remove everything between the '' until it looks like this define('TEXT_MAIN', ''); --still the same white screen.

I have also tried to open it in the filemanager. (although some have said that this strips the php somehow--same white screen

I have tried to set up a site in dreamweaver to change the php--same white screen

 

Please help, I spent hours adding my database items. Now I can't even get to the point where I want to spend more than a few minutes changing the database since I can't get the main page to look clean (let alone tweak it to look good) without the help intro text still there.

 

Thanks in advance ;-) :unsure:

[sLaV-]

white screen normally means a PHP error but your php.ini file has not been set up to display errors - hence your just getting a white screen

 

to turn on error reporting add

 

ini_set('display_errors',1);
error_reporting(E_ALL|E_STRICT);

 

to the top of your PHP file

 

If you paste your index.php file here we will be able to tell what the error is..