Re: Stupid is as Stupid does

Use var_dump() to see contents of a variable. It will print something even if variable is empty or undefined. ""Michael A. Peters"" <mpeters@mac.com> píse v diskusním príspevku news:49A79416.6060208@mac.com... > As my web app is coming to completion, I added a means to search records > (different from site search). > > This involves reading post input and is many cases converting it to an > integer. > > Damn I feel dumb. > > The search app wasn't working, so I did what I often do when > troubleshooting crap - I put a die($variable) at various points to see if > the variable is what it is suppose to be. > > I kept getting blank returns from die after the conversion from a post > string to an integer. I looked in the apache logs, system logs, I even > tried rebooting - I couldn't figure why the smurf the variable wasn't > converting to integer. > > I even turned off eaccelerator in case that was causing it, though it > never has given me issue before (except once when I was doing something in > a really shoddy way - cleaned up my method and it behaved) > > After several hours contemplating if I had bad RAM, an issue with the CPU, > verifying my RPMs were good, wondering why I wasn't getting anything in > the logs, it dawned on me. > > If variable is an integer, die($var) returns nothing and is suppose to > return nothing, it takes a string as an argument to echo on death - > die("$var") is what I wanted. > > I need sleep. > > I did finally find the error and fix the record search problem.