NEW: Enable display_errors = on in the installer to assist with diagnosis.

Installation problems often come down to a 'white screen of death' either during installation or after it.  The WSOD is generally caused by a PHP error that isn't picked up by SilverStripe's error handler.  This change fixes the first of those.

As a bigger fix, I'd like to see us allow the installation of sites in dev mode, the enabling of display_errors=on in dev mode, and perhaps even the ability to easily perform an initial installation in dev mode before switching to live mode.  However, that's a bigger change for another time.

Author: Sam Minnee

dev/install/install.php5

@@ -16,8 +16,10 @@
 
 // speed up mysql_connect timeout if the server can't be found
 ini_set('mysql.connect_timeout', 5);
-
+// Don't die half was through installation; that does more harm than good
 ini_set('max_execution_time', 0);
+// Prevent a white-screen-of-death
+ini_set('display_errors', 'on');
 
 error_reporting(E_ALL | E_STRICT);