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Been working in a new UDT, it has been working fine until for some reason, now I cant save any UDTs - I just get taken to a blank page when clicking the 'Submit' button. Ive tried clearing the cache but this hasbnt fixed it.... any idea what I can do?

Dont know if it was a coincidence but this happened after clicking the 'run' button on the UDT page I was working on - not sure what thats actually supposed to do anyway?

Run runs the UDT - e.g. if it can provide a result it will show it to you from within the admin interface.

Blank page will almost always have a log entry if you have php error logging enabled. The exception would be if it's a 403 page, in which case you likely have mod_security on your server and will need to disable it.

Here's the error:

AH01071: Got error 'PHP message: PHP Parse error: syntax error, unexpected '}' in /home/sites/21b/b/b5549c566a/public_html/admin/editusertag.php(93) : eval()'d code on line 2'

ok - that suggests it was an error in my code ... even though i tried making another UDT with a basic

echo "hello word"

And had the same trouble ... turns out I should have out in a semicolon at the end!! That stops the blank page issue...

Thanks for the tip on looking in the php logs! Would be nice if CMSMS gave me some sort of error rather than a blank page

echo "hello word"; would be more correct

see https://docs.cmsmadesimple.org/tags/use ... ting-a-udt

I don't think CMSMS would be able to give you an error in this case, as it's not CMSMS that's failing, it's the PHP code in your UDT. You'd have to add error handling into your UDT. PHP is giving you the error, and you can choose whether to display it, send it to logs, or ignore it.

I get that the error is with the PHP... but CMSMS should just save the UDT still surely, rather than show me a blank page when I try and save it? And only give me an error when I actually call the UDT on. pages somewhere ... i would have assumed as far as CMSMS is concerned, at that stage its just a bunch of text to save somewhere... guess thats obviously not the case as CMSMS must be trying to process the PHP code when I try and save the UDT?

... live and learn, at least I know what the blank page means in future!

That's valid, I thought it was only on run but it appears it's on submit too. You may want to file a feature request for that - UDTs were neglected a bit as they were going to be replaced with a different method in 2.3, but that plan was scrapped.