Re: declaring variables in PHP???

rene.moonen@oberthur.nl (René Moonen) wrote: > Hi, > > I'm using PHP for a few weeks now, so you can imagine that I'm making a > lot of typing errors... > > Often I make a typing error in one of the variable names ($helo instead > of $hello or worse still $Hello instead of $hello). Since PHP does not > care about declaring variables before using them, it is very easy to > overlook such small typing error in a large PHP script. > > In the old days of ANSI C, there where things like LINT that would help > you with these problems. Of course in ANSI C these things were easier, > because of the fact that variables need to be declared before they could > be used. > > My questions: > 1. can you configure PHP in such away that variables need to be > declared? you can change your warning level to E_ALL to give you a warning when variables aren't defined, but it still does not NEED to be defined. > 2. are there source code checking tools that could help me locate > problems like described above? dont know. -- Henrik Hansen