Question

Hi all I have a quick question about the construction of objects in PHP. I’m currently using the Zend framework to make a small test application to familiarize myself with the Zend way of doing things. However I have come across an error that is unfamiliar to me. In my controller I create the object $student like so:

$student = new Application_Model_Student();

However doing this causes my page to dump a 500 error and no debugging output. My constructor for this model doesn’t actually do anything but print “Hello Creation” out. Here’s my code for the model:

<?php

class Application_Model_Student
{

    protected $_lastName;
    protected $_firstName;
    protected $_email;
    protected $_concentration;
    protected $_yearEntered;

    public function __construct()
    {
          print "Hello Creation";
    }

}
?>

Is there something wrong with my constructor? Or something in the way that I call it?

Answer 1

Ensure that you have set you APPLICATION_ENV to 'development' so that you can see the error message.

If you still get a white screen, then there’s a syntax error in code before this file. turn on error_reporting and error_logging in your php.ini file and look in the error log file created.