Reporting undefined variables

[D. Alvarado]

Hello, Ia m running PHP 4 on Fedora Linus Apache 1.27. Since I have a
dev box, I would like warnings to appear in the event of undefined
variables or constants. But although I specified this setting in the
php.ini file,

;error_reportin g = E_COMPILE_ERROR |E_ERROR|E_CORE _ERROR
;
; - Show all errors except for notices
;
error_reporting = E_ALL

; Print out errors (as a part of the output). For production web
sites,
; you're strongly encouraged to turn this feature off, and use error
logging
; instead (see below). Keeping display_errors enabled on a production
web site
; may reveal security information to end users, such as file paths on
your Web
; server, your database schema or other information.
display_errors = On
warnings are not displayed. I stopped and restarted Apache. How can
I verify at runtime the error reporting level? Is there some kind of
PHP printable command?

DOes anyone have any other suggestions for how I may display undefined
variable warnings?

Much thanks, - Dave

[Ian.H]

On Thu, 29 Jul 2004 20:41:44 -0700, D. Alvarado wrote:

Hello, Ia m running PHP 4 on Fedora Linus Apache 1.27. Since I have a
dev box, I would like warnings to appear in the event of undefined
variables or constants. But although I specified this setting in the
php.ini file,

;error_reportin g = E_COMPILE_ERROR |E_ERROR|E_CORE _ERROR
;
; - Show all errors except for notices
;
error_reporting = E_ALL
[ snip ]

warnings are not displayed. I stopped and restarted Apache. How can
I verify at runtime the error reporting level? Is there some kind of
PHP printable command?

DOes anyone have any other suggestions for how I may display undefined
variable warnings?

Much thanks, - Dave

Dave, try:
error_reporting = E_ALL & E_NOTICE

Note: Enabling E_NOTICE during development has some benefits. For
debugging purposes: NOTICE messages will warn you about possible bugs in
your code. For example, use of unassigned values is warned. It is
extremely useful to find typos and to save time for debugging. NOTICE
messages will warn you about bad style. For example, $arr[item] is better
to be written as $arr['item'] since PHP tries to treat "item" as constant.
If it is not a constant, PHP assumes it is a string index for the array.

Sounds about right if I understand you correctly =)
HTH.

Regards,

Ian

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