hi. noob question here. i have an index.php and one of the things it does is display some data. but i want the data to be correct. so i made another page called scrape.php that updates MySQL. when a user views index.php i'd like scrape.php to update rows if needed. so i've been playing around with figuring out ways to do this.

if i use
include(XOOPS_ROOT_PATH.'/modules/xpstorrent/scrape.php');
at the top of index.php i think this will do the trick. but i'm quite sure i've made a couple of mistakes in scrape.php and would like to see those errors.

XOOPS can display SQL queries, PHP & Smarty errors but it seems to be only for the page displayed and not for my 'included' page.

how can i see those very helpful php errors?

oh, i just realized that my web host has set log_errors to On. errors are being sent to my scripts.log file. that works. it's not neatly displaying errors in the usual XOOPS manner, but it helps. i can see the include file errors.

If you still want to see the errors displayed, you could try adding at the beginning of the include-file:

error_reporting(E_ALL);

You might also need to add:

ini_set('display_errors', '1');

But those settings are not recommended for a public site, since they could reveal information useful to hackers.

awesome. thanks dave!