Re: Making sure an include file works

Robert Cummings wrote:

On Thu, 2008-02-28 at 20:46 -0800, Jim Lucas wrote:

Robert Cummings wrote:

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.

Point to be noted. Check the first note. Note: For technical reasons, this function is deprecated and removed from PHP. Instead, use php -l somefile.php from the commandline.

That's funny given the thread so far :D Cheers, Rob.

It isn't my words. Look at the versions the function is available for. PHP 5 <= 5.0.4