My Plugin Renders A Totally Blank Page

[inventa]

Hello,

 

I am trying to develop a plugin for Blesta 3.0.6.

 

I followed the documentation but all I get is a blank page when I try to access the page.

 

Can anyone help?

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[Michael]

I recommend using the latest versions either 3.1.0 or 3.0.8.

 

Blank page could be any reason, have you got a log (tools > logs > modules) or a error_log?

[inventa]

Apache Error Log is empty, and I don't have the Modules Log you mentioned.

 

As far as the version is concerned, we have a lot of custom code that would imply lots of work to get it updated. And we have it running in our internal network so we're keeping this one for now.

[Paul]

Try enabling error reporting and see if that white page turns into an error message.

 

To enable error reporting, edit /config/blesta.php and change

 

Configure::errorReporting(0);

 

to

 

Configure::errorReporting(-1);

[inventa]

Thanks for the tip, I will try that.

 

Maybe that's a quick edit to the documentation that would help a lot of people trying to develop?

[inventa]

Well, it seems like this structure.pdt is required, but also not mentioned anywhere on the docs.

 

I copied it over from another plugin, but now I just get a blank page with the contents of my admin_main view and nothing else.

[velaware]

I had this issue myself and its kind of really annoying.

 

Add this to your controller's preAction method:

        $this->structure->setDefaultView(APPDIR);
        $this->structure->setView(null, $this->orig_structure_view);

Add this to your plugin's main controller preAction (i.e.: plugin_controller.php file):

                $this->view->view = "default";
                $this->orig_structure_view = $this->structure->view;
                $this->structure->view = "default";

Note that your controller (where you call setView()) has to extend your plugin's controller for this to work.