Re: Stricter Error Checking?

Hi, There is, see here (or it can also be set through php.ini): http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.error-reporting.php You are looking for E_STRICT. Regards, Jonathan On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 3:11 PM, Tim Legg <kc0ofc@yahoo.com> wrote: > Hello, > > I just spent way, way to much time trying to debug code due to a misnamed element.  Here is a > simplified example of the problem I dealt with. > > >        $test = "SELECT * FROM Materials WHERE > Part_Number = '125664'"; >        $result = mysql_query($test,$handle); >        if(!$result) >        { >                die('Error: ' . mysql_error()); >        } >        $row = mysql_fetch_array($result); >        echo $row['Number']; > > After retyping the code 3 or 4 times over the course of the morning, I finally found where the > problem was.  The problem is that the database field is called 'Part_Number', not > 'Number'.  The field 'Number' does not exist in the database.  I am very > surprised that I didn't even get a warning that there might be a problem with the statement. >  All I saw is that nothing was being returned via the echo command. > > There really must be a stricter error checking that is turned on somewhere, isn't there? > > > Thanks for your help. > > Tim > > > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > >