1. Scenario
2. Solution

Scenario ¶

So I've been busy making lots of modifications to my views/models/controllers - came to test the app and got a blank screen. Nothing in the application.log file so must be a syntax error somewhere... But which file?

Solution ¶

If you are using linux (Ubuntu in my case) and a local Apache server, then run the following from a terminal from the protected directory

find . -name \*.php -exec php -l "{}" \;

This will syntax check each php file recursively from the current directory.

Full credit to http://www.electrictoolbox.com/php-command-line-syntax-checking/