May 31 2007

Drupal - Blank Screen After Submit

Filed under: Content Management Systems » Drupal,

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Are you getting blank (white) screens in Drupal?

This is a common problem that begins to occur when you edit core/ theme/ template files and leave in invalid characters, or spaces where they shouldn't be.

A common place for this to occur is in your theme's template.php file. Check to make sure there is no space after your ending ?>

If that doesn't fix it do a mass search for a space at the end of the last character for all your files. Finally, back up your template.php file and complete delete it from your theme directory and see if you still get the blank screen. If you don't, you've narrowed down the problem to your template.php file - maybe a function you ported over from an old site that no longer applies.

If that still doesn't solve your problem you may need to increase your php memory limits. Consult your hosting provider for how to do this.

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Thanks a lot!

Submitted by a visitor from afar on Tue, 2010-04-06 07:16.

I think it's a good idea not to put ?> at the end of template.php file!

Same Problem

Submitted by a visitor from afar on Wed, 2009-12-23 11:17.

I had used Drupal 5.x site worked in online, but I download and worked in local, but while the button submit it displays only empty page..

1. I clears all the cache table and also the browser's cache.
2. I increased the memory limit also in php.ini file also, same problem occurred, kindly give the solution.

Regards Manikandan.T

trouleshooting template.php

Submitted by a visitor from afar on Mon, 2009-11-30 02:09.

Look at the error_log of your web server. It will reveal all problems.

I just do this:

prompt# tail -f error_log

Output is something like this:

[Sun Nov 29 23:03:20 2009] [error] [client 209.173.84.19] PHP Parse error: syntax error, unexpected '[', expecting T_STRING in /var/www/vhosts/example.com/httpdocs/themes/zen/zen_ninesixty/template.php on line 278

Find out what the syntax error (or other) is on line 278 and you've fixed it!

Joe

Blank page

Submitted by a visitor from afar on Tue, 2009-10-06 06:01.

I tried all the above possibilities. It's not working. Any other ways please tell!

A less subtle approach

Submitted by a visitor from afar on Thu, 2010-01-28 20:51.

A less subtle approach is to move the theme out of the themes folder or chmod 000 it, forcing Drupal to use another theme. I've had to do this a couple times when dealing with multisite installs or playing with experimental themes.

The fix to blank Drupal screen

Submitted by a visitor from afar on Sat, 2009-06-13 01:41.

People - if you're getting blank Drupal screens, do this:

- Upgrade Drupal
- Clear out your database cache using the following:

For Drupal 4.x and lower:
truncate table cache;

For Drupal 5.x and higher:
truncate table cache;
truncate table cache_filter;
truncate table cache_menu;
truncate table cache_page;

Clear out your browser cache and reload your page using force refresh (Ctrl + F5 key). If that doesn't solve it, you may need to simply start over from scratch, and then re-import your data.