Re: Making sure an include file works

Richard S. Crawford schreef:

Thanks to everyone for the suggestions. Unfortunately, I'm up against a couple of major hurdles: 1. My host does not allow command line access and has disabled shell execution of PHP; 2. Error reporting has been turned off and I can't seem to turn that on with ini_set or error_reporting (which is fun when I have minor syntax errors to fix); and

which ini setting? if you want to see your errors in the browser you need display_errors set to On. error_reporting only sets the level of reporting.

3. My host is also stuck in PHP 4.3, so the check_syntax function isn't available to me either (although I understand that this function has been deprecated in the most recent builds of PHP).

make your host your ex-host.

At this point, I'll just use file_exists and is_readable for some basic checking, and hope that the included files have no syntax errors.

it seems madness that you don't seem to test code before incorporating it into a production system. at the very least anything you put on a website should parse properly. have you considered installing a local copy of php (and suitable webserver) so you can test it there?

On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 11:25 AM, Daniel Brown <parasane@gmail.com> wrote:

On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 9:58 PM, Richard S. Crawford <rscrawford@mossroot.com> 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.

As far as I know, the only way to do that is via the CLI (or accessing the include file directly in the browser). Make sure that error_reporting is enabled and that it's set to report E_ALL if you want to really be sure your code is clean (i.e. - reporting unused, undefined, and uninstantiated variables, et cetera). Then, if done from a *nix command line, just type:

       php -l /path/to/include/file.php

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