Re: Friday morning brain farts....

On 8/10/07, Robert Cummings <robert@interjinn.com> wrote: > On Fri, 2007-08-10 at 11:40 -0400, Daniel Brown wrote: > > On 8/10/07, Stut <stuttle@gmail.com> wrote: > > > If PHP thinks something might be wrong it will tell you. Why on earth > > > would you want to ignore it? You think you're smarter than PHP? Really? > > > > Okay, Stut, let's not make Friday the official "Flame Dan Brown" > > holiday this week. I vote that it should be later in the year. > > > > However, it should also be noted that my development is never done > > on a production server attached to the Internet, for one; and on my > > development machine, E_NOTICE is always enabled. I just fail to see > > the benefit in alerting visitors to the site that there may have been > > something overlooked at some point. > > Why would it alert visitors? You don't have display errors set to on for > a production server do you? *EEEEEEEEEK*. Send it to a log file. The > reason it's good to enable notices on a production server is because > your visitors are like a horde of testers, they'll probably hit every > nook and cranny of your code that you might have missed during testing. > > Cheers, > Rob. > -- > ........................................................... > SwarmBuy.com - http://www.swarmbuy.com > > Leveraging the buying power of the masses! > ........................................................... > Ha! No, I don't have it set to display anything to the user except for a custom error-handling message. The generic, "there appears to be a problem, we've been notified, blah, blah, blah...." The way I read your point was to say that it should be on display. That misunderstanding is my fault. -- Daniel P. Brown [office] (570-) 587-7080 Ext. 272 [mobile] (570-) 766-8107 Hey, PHP-General list.... 50% off for life on web hosting plans $10/mo. or more at http://www.pilotpig.net/. Use the coupon code phpgeneralaug07 Register domains for about $0.01 more than what it costs me at http://domains.pilotpig.net/.