[wp-hackers] Invisible Errors on Activation

[Rich Christiansen]

Thanks for the response, Austin!  I'd like to configure my plugin so 
that the errors are accessible on all installations automatically, 
without having to edit plugin.php.  Does anyone know how I might do so?

tia,
-Rich


wp-hackers-request at lists.automattic.com wrote:

Message: 5 Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2008 12:47:44 -0400 From: "Austin Matzko" 
<if.website at gmail.com> Subject: Re: [wp-hackers] Invisible Errors on 
Activation To: wp-hackers at lists.automattic.com Message-ID: 
<674b4a3b0806130947wa7bb686tc0544ae04eae568f at mail.gmail.com> 
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 
1:42 PM, Rich Christiansen <warproof at warproof.com> wrote:

> > My latest plugin
> > (http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/featurific-for-wordpress/) performs a
> > bunch of initialization during activation.  However, if the activation
> > generates PHP errors (e.g. file not found, etc.), they are not reported to
> > the user.  The problem is that I know that errors are being generated.  If I
> > call the activation method from another method, the PHP errors are
> > successfully reported.
> >
> > What's wrong?  Is this the default behavior of Wordpress?  And if so, how
> > can I work around it?
>   

The function activate_plugin, defined in wp-admin/includes/plugin.php,
uses output buffering to check for fatal errors upon activation.  You
can comment out the call to output buffering functions there to see
the errors.