Re: Making sure an include file works

On Thu, 2008-02-28 at 20:17 -0800, Casey wrote: > On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 7:50 PM, Robert Cummings <robert@interjinn.com> wrote: > > > > On Thu, 2008-02-28 at 18:58 -0800, Richard S. Crawford wrote: > > > I'm trying to figure out a way to make sure an included PHP file has no syntax > > > errors before actually including it as a part of project. Is this even > > > possible? I'm running into brick walls. > > > > I don't believe there is a function to do this. What can be done though > > is to call the cli binary with the -l flag and have the file syntax > > checked that way. > > > > php -l /path/to/the/source > > > > It wouldn't be very fast though as a solution. > > http://us.php.net/manual/en/function.php-check-syntax.php Doh! Time for me to start trawling the PHP site again to acquaint myself with all the new functions :) I probably would have found it though if searching the site's functions for syntax didn't take me directly to the documentation for soundex(). Cheers, Rob. -- .------------------------------------------------------------. | InterJinn Application Framework - http://www.interjinn.com | :------------------------------------------------------------: | An application and templating framework for PHP. Boasting | | a powerful, scalable system for accessing system services | | such as forms, properties, sessions, and caches. InterJinn | | also provides an extremely flexible architecture for | | creating re-usable components quickly and easily. | `------------------------------------------------------------'