note 3572 modified in error_reporting by ronabop

I read somewhere that turning off error messages when you release your code is like taking off your parachute after you jump out of the plane. I would like to always use reporting level 8 - it speeds debugging immesely. Somewhat equivalent to using to -w switch in Perl - which should ALWAYS be done. However there doesn't seem to be a way to then test the existence/definition of a variable. i.e. I want to say if (defined($HTTP_COOKIE_VARS["foo"])) { do something...} I still get "Undefined index: foo" when the cookie has not been set yet. Duh - thats why I asked if it was defined. So unfortunately I do have to lower the reporting level to get cookies to work - since the warnings screw up the headers and thus the cookies themselves. http://www.php.net/manual/function.error-reporting.php