alert popup box

[Paul Furman]

I can't find a way to create an alert popup box for debugging, is this
possible in php? I guess I'm thinking of visual basic where that was so
easy, in php I normally use *print* for this but it can be hard to find.

thanks

[Kimmo Laine]

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>I can't find a way to create an alert popup box for debugging, is this
possible in php? I guess I'm thinking of visual basic where that was so
easy, in php I normally use *print* for this but it can be hard to find.

No, it's not possible. Alertbox's don't exist in php. (Only way to make a
popup would be echo some javascript which would generate the popup.

<?php

$foo = bar;
echo "<script type='text/javascript'>alert('$foo')</script>";

?>

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[Steve Belanger]

one thing i could suggest is to try a IDE program with an integrated
debugger. This way you can check content of a variable as you run the script
on a step by step mode. We are working on a pretty decent one that can also
debug javascript if need be.

read more about it here: http://www.jcxsoftware.com/

Steve.

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>>I can't find a way to create an alert popup box for debugging, is this
possible in php? I guess I'm thinking of visual basic where that was so
easy, in php I normally use *print* for this but it can be hard to find.

No, it's not possible. Alertbox's don't exist in php. (Only way to make a
popup would be echo some javascript which would generate the popup.

<?php

$foo = bar;
echo "<script type='text/javascript'>alert('$foo')</script>";

?>

--
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http://outolempi.net/ahdistus/ - Satunnaisesti päivittyvä nettisarjis
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[Paul Furman]

Kimmo Laine wrote:

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>>I can't find a way to create an alert popup box for debugging, is this
possible in php? I guess I'm thinking of visual basic where that was so
easy, in php I normally use *print* for this but it can be hard to find.

No, it's not possible. Alertbox's don't exist in php. (Only way to make a
popup would be echo some javascript which would generate the popup.

<?php

$foo = bar;
echo "<script type='text/javascript'>alert('$foo')</script>";

?>

Great, thanks. I guess because it just isn't an html possibility either
& php simply produces html... or javascript ;-)

[Paul Furman]

Steve Belanger wrote:

one thing i could suggest is to try a IDE program with an integrated
debugger. This way you can check content of a variable as you run the script
on a step by step mode. We are working on a pretty decent one that can also
debug javascript if need be.

read more about it here: http://www.jcxsoftware.com/

Yeah that would be nice, I learned php after a prerequisite course in VB
& that's handy stuff. I've also used similar with LISP. I'm currently
using PSpad as my editor & it doesn't offer that AFAIK.