Handling White Screen of Death in PHP

Occasionally a site user or developer will navigate to a page and suddenly the page content disappears, and is completely blank. No content. No errors. Nothing. This is what is referred to as the White Screen of Death or WSOD.

Work around for this problem is to add the following in beginning of PHP code:

ini_set(“session.save_handler”, “files”);

The “save_handler” is just defined in php.ini with value “files”, redefining the save_handler before calling session_start() solves the problem.