require_once of certain file works on local windows, not on dev linux machine

I'm trying to integrate Goutte http://github.com/fabpot/Goutte into my existing symfony 1.4 project and am running into a problem.

I have everything working on my local wamp server, here are the two lines in question:

require_once('path_to_goutte.phar');
$client = new Goutte\Client();

Now to debug I've put a print statement before and after the require_once statement an开发者_StackOverflow社区d the second print statement doesn't get fired off. No error logs are generated - the error is silent and very frustrating.

Any ideas as to why this might be happening?

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"No error logs" is something that should be fixed! Check your php configuration (the php;ini file). Is the log_errors setting set to on?