Re: Taint mode for PHP

> > Is there a way to require that all script variables be declared before they > > can be used? Sort of like taint mode in Perl. Would also be nice if the > > parser spit back an informative error for all undeclared variables. > > Crank your error_reporting level way up. ie. set it to E_ALL in your > php.ini file. > > -Rasmus It looks like E_ALL just requires that variables have assignments made before they used in a statement. This is not quite what I would like. What I would like is that the parser would issue a warning for height but not width in the code below. If is did, then the would assist in catching bugs associated with missspelled variable names. These can be nasty errors to track down in some cases. <?php error_reporting(E_TAINT); // made this up var $width; $height = 5; // warning issued - $height is not declared. $width = $height * 2; ?> Regards, Paul Meagher