Debug PHP Store Crash | Shop

I have a web-based clothing store built with PHP 8.x and MySQL. On both of our development laptops the shop only half-loads: product pages stay blank and the admin panel dies with a session-handling / database-initialisation error. Server-side logs confirm the failure happens during bootstrap even though config files, credentials and migrations look fine.

I’ll send you the full source so you can spin it up inside your own XAMPP stack. What I need is:

• replicate the issue on your machine,
• trace the root cause (code, config or environment),
• apply a clean fix, and
• send back the corrected files along with a short “what broke and how to avoid it” note.

If additional PHP modules, composer packages or Apache tweaks are required, document those steps too so we can mirror them locally. Once your patched version runs end-to-end—product catalogue, cart, and admin panel—I’ll verify and close the task.