Re: More toroughly checking a script before execution

Rasmus Lerdorf wrote:

Sounds like you just need to turn on E_NOTICE. At least for your variable access stuff assuming your test case actually hits that part of the code.

I was talking about finding the problems bevore executing the code.

If you are talking about complete code coverage letting you catch any such mistyped variables or functions, that is simply impossible to do at that level because variables and function names can be defined at runtime.

I know it's impossible to catch all cases, I mentioned this in my post. Neverthless it would help to find out basic prolematic zones.

Just because a function doesn't exist at compile time doesn't mean that it won't be created before the call to it at runtime. And it doesn't need to be as complicated as you make it out to be with your variable variable example. A simple conditional include completely changes the nature of everything at runtime. What you really need is to create decent regression tests and use a code coverage tool to make sure your tests cover your code well. Xdebug can do the code coverage check for you.

I guess you're refering to http://www.xdebug.org/docs-functions.php#coverage . I didn't knew about it and I'll take a look if it can help me with my problem, thanks! - Markus