Hi peeps,

Have you ever worked on an application on laravel 5, but when you get an error

what you see is a white screen ,

what you need do a chmod 777 -R on the storage folder in your laravel application,

then you get the normal error , but for me I actually prefer to use the whoops error

this was in laravel 4 because its very detailed but it has been yanked off in laravel 5

A quick way to do this is first editing your composer.json file and adding

"filp/whoops": "~1.0", under the require so it looks somthing like this below

	"require": {
		"laravel/framework": "5.0.*",
                "illuminate/html": "~5.0",
                "filp/whoops": "~1.0",
                "intervention/image": "^2.3"  
	},

you then go to laravel app from your terminal and do:

sudo composer update, after that you navigate to apps/Exceptions/handlers.php

add this method below to the Handler class:

    protected function renderExceptionWithWhoops(Exception $e)
    {
        $whoops = new \Whoops\Run;
        $whoops->pushHandler(new \Whoops\Handler\PrettyPageHandler());

        return new \Illuminate\Http\Response(
            $whoops->handleException($e),
            $e->getStatusCode(),
            $e->getHeaders()
        );
    }      
       

then you look for a method "render " then add this in the method

             if (config('app.debug'))
        {
            return $this->renderExceptionWithWhoops($e);
        }    

so it will look like this below

public function render($request, Exception $e)
	{
            
             if (config('app.debug'))
        {
            return $this->renderExceptionWithWhoops($e);
        }    
            
		return parent::render($request, $e);
	}

        
        
        
        
    /**
     * Render an exception using Whoops.
     * 
     * @param  \Exception $e
     * @return \Illuminate\Http\Response
     */
    protected function renderExceptionWithWhoops(Exception $e)
    {
        $whoops = new \Whoops\Run;
        $whoops->pushHandler(new \Whoops\Handler\PrettyPageHandler());

        return new \Illuminate\Http\Response(
            $whoops->handleException($e),
            $e->getStatusCode(),
            $e->getHeaders()
        );
    }      

then you are done






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I have been using Laravel 5 for some time now. I still get the `Whoops!` error message without going through much trouble. All I do is set an environment variable in my .env file called APP_DEBUG to true.

Like so:

APP_DEBUG=true

That does all the magic.

I havent had time to explain better,

If you look at the images I attached below you will see two different error pages ,

The colorful one is the Whoops error I was talking about , you can see it from the title , I actually prefer it that is why I go through those

steps before to make it display when using laravel 5.

On the other hand, the other one is the error page that appears when you install laravel 5 ,

you dont need any setting whatsoever , rather than to make the APP_DEBUG to true in your .env file

I dont really like it because its not as detailed and perhaps

less colourful but its your choice really to choose the one that works for you