How to find line that is causing the error

Question

I have just started using Laravel and cannot get my head around how it throws errors. It doesn't show the line where the error is so I don't know how to locate it. Can anyone help?

htmlentities() expects parameter 1 to be string, array given (View: M:\webserver\www\app\views\products\admin\create.blade.php)

This file is incredibly long and I cannot see where this array is being sent.

It's obviously coming from a Form::text() but I am passing a null as the second param in all that I can see. Why doesn't Laravel simply tell me the line that is erroring. The error it puts out is no use to me.

Answer 1

check the error file:

app/storage/logs/laravel.log

you can watch changes in the file (on Mac and *NIX) using command line:

tail -f app/storage/logs/laravel.log

remember that the storage directory must be writable by the webserver/PHP process because it's used as scratch space (for blade views, logs, etc.)