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Bob Sutherton
Bob Sutherton
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Posted by Bob Sutherton
Bob Sutherton
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I'm getting the white screen of death!

This is in the context of the treehouse badges plugin video attached to this post. When I remove this short line of code my website reappears again. When I put it back in it is the white screen of the abyss.

if( $options != '' ) {
        $wptreehouse_username = $options['wptreehouse_username']
    }

If you need to see the larger context that this code is in to be able to answer, I can post that. I can't find anything different about this than what Zac has done.

2 Answers

Nejc Vukovic
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Nejc Vukovic
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if( $options != '' ) {
        $wptreehouse_username = $options['wptreehouse_username'];
    }

Maybe the semicolon?

Bob Sutherton
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Bob Sutherton
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Thanks dude! I swear I thought I had tried that. The funny thing is that Zac doesn't use it in his code so I was just copying him.

Nejc Vukovic
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Nejc Vukovic
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Nejc Vukovic
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You are welcome.

Well in my opinion I close every line with a semicolon (good practice) . I'm used to it from my school times : C++ .

Nejc Vukovic
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Nejc Vukovic
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Welcome. Just to share: I watched JavaScript Course and in the beginning Jim didn't put an semicolon in his code... And my jaw dropped when the code passed normally :D

It's not a must to put a semicolon on every line, but hell I'm putting 2 just to be sure:D