note 26926 added to function.error-reporting

It seems that using E_NOTICE (included with E_ALL) is the only way to get warnings about undefined variables. For example, if you type $soemthing when you mean $something, you may not get any message about it unless you use E_NOTICE level reporting. The problem is, at that level of reporting you also get notices about array indexes that have not been set. This means lots of warnings when using $_GET['formvariable'] and such. You can check isset($_GET['formvariable']) first, but that gets annoying, especially when it is redundant to stricter input validation you need to do anyway. The only solution I have found is to use set_error_handler() to register a custom error reporting function to report everything except where the error string starts with "Undefined index:". Then I call error_reporting(E_ALL). This seems to be the best compromise. function error_handler($errno, $errstr, $errfile, $errline, $errctx) { if ($errno == E_NOTICE && substr($errstr, 0, 17) == "Undefined index: ") return; echo "\nerror_handler:\n\terrno=$errno\n\terrstr=$errstr\n"; echo "\terrfile=$errfile\n\terrline=$errline\n"; if ($errno & (E_ERROR | E_CORE_ERROR | E_COMPILE_ERROR | E_USER_ERROR)) die(); } set_error_handler("error_handler"); error_reporting(E_ALL); -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.error-reporting.php http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=edit+26926 http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+26926 http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=reject+26926