My first PHP project crashed because I forgot one semicolon

I was building a simple login form for a class project in Denver and spent like 2 hours trying to figure out why the page just showed a blank white screen. Turned out I missed a semicolon after a variable assignment on line 12, which broke the whole script. My instructor just laughed and said it happens to everyone at least once. Learned to double-check syntax errors before panicking. Has anyone else had a tiny typo ruin a whole day of work?

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lucast814d ago

Same thing happened to me, now I just run the validator every few lines to catch those mistakes.

stella224d ago

Maybe I should start doing that before I accidentally delete my whole project again.