Magento White Screen

Sometimes when you are setting up a devsite you run into the issue of a white screen with no errors. In many cases you resolve this by adding this code to the index.php

<span class="pln">ini_set</span><span class="pun">(</span><span class="str">'error_reporting'</span><span class="pun">,</span><span class="pln"> E_ERROR</span><span class="pun">);</span><span class="pln">

register_shutdown_function</span><span class="pun">(</span><span class="str">"fatal_handler"</span><span class="pun">);</span>

<span class="kwd">function</span><span class="pln"> fatal_handler</span><span class="pun">()</span> <span class="pun">{</span><span class="pln">

    $error </span><span class="pun">=</span><span class="pln"> error_get_last</span><span class="pun">();</span><span class="pln">

    echo</span><span class="pun">(</span><span class="str">"&lt;pre&gt;"</span><span class="pun">);</span><span class="pln">

    print_r</span><span class="pun">(</span><span class="pln">$error</span><span class="pun">);</span>

<span class="pun">}</span>