Re: Is there any way that PHP will issue a warning when using undeclared vars?

On Sun, 2 Jan 2005 16:23:34 -0800, Dan Eloff <dan.eloff@gmail.com> wrote: > My single biggest beef with PHP is the fact that it silently fails > when I use a variable that has never been declared. Like if($sumbit) > will always be false because the variable was really named $submit. My > only clue that this is happening is whe the program fails to work as > intended and I waste lots of time trying to find out why the block > never executes. > > Or if you forget to use $this->var and you just use $var. I just had > that happen to me too. Wasted another 30 min. > > Is there any way at all to control this? I went into my PHP.ini file, > but my errors are set to E_ALL & E_STRICT which seems to be the > highest level I can set. > > If not I think we should seriously push for E_STRICT warnings if a > variable is used without every being assigned to. I usally do something like this when I start a project, so I can easily turn it back off later when my code goes production: if( $debug ) { error_reporting( E_ALL ); ini_set( 'display_errors', 1 ); ini_set( 'log_errors', 1 ); } else { error_reporting( E_ERROR | E_WARNING | E_PARSE ); ini_set( 'display_errors', 0 ); } -- Greg Donald Zend Certified Engineer http://destiney.com/