Blank page on submitting form

Question

I have this code on the page "GetUsers.php"

    <form action="actions/getusers.php" method="post">
                <div class="form-group">
                    <label for="user">User:</label>
                    <input type="text" class="form-control" id="user" name="user">
                </div>

                <button type="submit" name="Form" id="Form" class="btn btn-default">Manage</button>
    </form>

While on "actions/getusers.php", I have this:

<?php

include('../../config.php');

session_start();

if( isset($_SESSION['password']) && $_SESSION['password']==$usdb_config['adminpassword'] ) {
    return true;
}
if( !isset($_SESSION['password']) ) {
    header("Location: ../login.php");
    die();
}
if( isset($_SESSION['password']) && $_SESSION['password']!==$usdb_config['adminpassword'] ) {
    header("Location: ../login.php");
    die();
}

require('../../other/casesensitivecfg.php');
$AdminPassword = $_SESSION['password'];

$locationtodb =  '../../database/'.$usdb_config['db_username'].$usdb_config['db_password'].$usdb_config['db_passphrase'].'/';
$users = file_get_contents($locationtodb.'users.txt');
$User = $_POST['user'];
$SearchUser = $User;
$pattern = preg_quote($SearchUser, '/');
$pattern = "/^.*$pattern.*\$/m";
preg_match_all($pattern, $users, $matches);
$wholeLine = implode("\n", $matches[0]);
$data = explode(":", $wholeLine);

// header('Content-Type: text/plain');

?>

And also this code between HTML codes in "actions/getusers.php" :

    <?php

            if( isset($_POST['Form']) ) {
                echo '
                <ul class="list-group">
                    <li class="list-group-item"><strong>User Owner: </strong>'.$data[2].'</li>
                    <li class="list-group-item"><strong>User: </strong>'.$data[0].'</li>
                    <li class="list-group-item"><strong>User Status: </strong>'.$data[1].'</li>
                </ul>
                ';
            }

            if( !preg_match_all($pattern, $users, $matches) ) {
                echo '<div class="alert alert-danger" role="alert">The user you entered does not exists!</div>';
            }

            if( $_POST['user']=="this_line_must_not_be_edited_or_removed" ) {
                echo '<div class="alert alert-danger" role="alert">The user you entered does not exists!</div>';
            }

    ?>

At last, after submitting the form on "GetUsers.php", I get blank page on "actions/getusers.php".

Possible duplicate of [PHP's white screen of death](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1475297/phps-white-screen-of-death) — David, Feb 08 '17 at 14:57
@JayBlanchard - There's no log files in the "actions" directory, and I'm not the owner of the web server... It's just shared hosting. — Jacksweet, Feb 08 '17 at 14:57
Even with shared hosting you should have access to the error logs for your share. It is the only way to know what error might have caused this. — Jay Blanchard, Feb 08 '17 at 14:58
Look at your first `IF` test. `return true` will stop the script AT THAT POINT — RiggsFolly, Feb 08 '17 at 15:03
@RiggsFolly - Again I'm an idiot, lol! Thank you. You can post that as an answer and I will select it as the choosed one. — Jacksweet, Feb 08 '17 at 15:06
@David - Can you please this possible duplicate? This question is totally different. — Jacksweet, Feb 08 '17 at 15:06

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Feb 08 '17 at 15:08

In your actions/getusers.php script the first if terminates the script if you are using the admin password

<?php

include('../../config.php');

session_start();

if( isset($_SESSION['password']) && $_SESSION['password']==$usdb_config['adminpassword'] ) {
    return true;    // This kills the script before any output is generated
}

Blank page on submitting form

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