is there a php editor of developer environment that asks for variables to be declared?

[lkrubner@geocities.com]

PHP does not ask developers to declare their variables. You can simply
create a variable on the fly. That is nice for small scripts and a
headache for large projects. Is there editor out there that enforces a
kind of strict mode? I don't need full variable typing, I just want an
editor that makes me declare all variable - at the very least I'd like
to be able to catch spelling errors.

[ZeldorBlat]

Re: is there a php editor of developer environment that asks for variables to be declared?

If you crank up the error reporting level PHP will warn you about using
a variable before it has been defined.

http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.errorfunc.php#ini.error-reporting

You probably want E_ALL.

[lkrubner@geocities.com]

Re: is there a php editor of developer environment that asks for variables to be declared?


ZeldorBlat wrote:[color=blue]
> If you crank up the error reporting level PHP will warn you about using
> a variable before it has been defined.
>
> http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.err...rror-reporting
>
> You probably want E_ALL.[/color]

Good to know. So if I set it to E_ALL, PHP will want me to write this
line:

var $myHtmlString = "";

before I start using the variable $myHtmlString?

[R. Rajesh Jeba Anbiah]

Re: is there a php editor of developer environment that asks for variables to be declared?

lkrubner@geocit ies.com wrote:[color=blue]
> ZeldorBlat wrote:[color=green]
> > If you crank up the error reporting level PHP will warn you about using
> > a variable before it has been defined.
> >
> > http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.err...rror-reporting
> >
> > You probably want E_ALL.[/color]
>
> Good to know. So if I set it to E_ALL, PHP will want me to write this
> line:
>
> var $myHtmlString = "";
>
> before I start using the variable $myHtmlString?[/color]

Probably you may not be wanted... But, anyway you can do such
wonders if you use <http://in2.php.net/set_error_handl er>

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[R. Rajesh Jeba Anbiah]

Re: is there a php editor of developer environment that asks for variables to be declared?

R. Rajesh Jeba Anbiah wrote:[color=blue]
> lkrubner@geocit ies.com wrote:[/color]
<snip>[color=blue][color=green]
> > Good to know. So if I set it to E_ALL, PHP will want me to write this
> > line:
> >
> > var $myHtmlString = "";
> >
> > before I start using the variable $myHtmlString?[/color][/color]

BTW, I don't think you need such feature. If you use a variable
without having a value in it, it's an error; and you have to correct
it. If you just want to fill it with empty text or null, as somone
said, you set your error level to low.

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[Raqueeb Hassan]

Re: is there a php editor of developer environment that asks for variables to be declared?

You might try this one ...

http://www.visualiez.com/stuff/belibs/be.errorhandler.zip

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[lkrubner@geocities.com]

Re: is there a php editor of developer environment that asks for variables to be declared?

> > Good to know. So if I set it to E_ALL, PHP will want me to[color=blue][color=green]
>>write this
> > line:
> > var $myHtmlString = "";
> > before I start using the variable $myHtmlString?[/color][/color]
[color=blue]
> BTW, I don't think you need such feature. If you use a variable
> without having a value in it, it's an error; and you have to correct
> it. If you just want to fill it with empty text or null, as somone
> said, you set your error level to low.[/color]

I'm not sure I understand you. I want to declare my variables before
they are used. I'd like an IDE that enforces it. I might declare a
variable like this:

var $isFlagSet = false;

and then later I might have an if() test like this:

if ($ifFlagSet) {
echo "success";
} else {
echo "sorry, there was an error";
}

[rich@newsguy.com]

Re: is there a php editor of developer environment that asks for variables to be declared?

In article <1129384888.748 848.184590@g47g 2000cwa.googleg roups.com>,
lkrubner@geocit ies.com says...[color=blue]
>
>
>PHP does not ask developers to declare their variables. You can simply
>create a variable on the fly. That is nice for small scripts and a
>headache for large projects. Is there editor out there that enforces a
>kind of strict mode? I don't need full variable typing, I just want an
>editor that makes me declare all variable - at the very least I'd like
>to be able to catch spelling errors.
>[/color]

I wish PHP had the "use strict" mode that Perl has. I've gotten accustomed to
weeding out typos and goofy errors that take a little longer to debug now. Maybe
it was too much of a crutch. I still catch myself starting with "my $var =... ".
Maybe there's a settings in the php.ini file to output more information to the
web error log, but wasn't seeing anything obvious.

Rich
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[Roman Khutkyy]

Re: is there a php editor of developer environment that asks for variables to be declared?

On Wed, 26 Oct 2005 01:17:59 +0300, <rich@newsguy.c om> wrote:
[color=blue]
> In article <1129384888.748 848.184590@g47g 2000cwa.googleg roups.com>,
> lkrubner@geocit ies.com says...[color=green]
>>
>>
>> PHP does not ask developers to declare their variables. You can simply
>> create a variable on the fly. That is nice for small scripts and a
>> headache for large projects. Is there editor out there that enforces a
>> kind of strict mode? I don't need full variable typing, I just want an
>> editor that makes me declare all variable - at the very least I'd like
>> to be able to catch spelling errors.
>>[/color]
>
> I wish PHP had the "use strict" mode that Perl has. I've gotten
> accustomed to
> weeding out typos and goofy errors that take a little longer to debug
> now. Maybe
> it was too much of a crutch. I still catch myself starting with "my $var
> =... ".
> Maybe there's a settings in the php.ini file to output more information
> to the
> web error log, but wasn't seeing anything obvious.
>
> Rich
> --
> Newsguy -- http://newsguy.com
>[/color]

Free up then.
Give up with PHP.
Love Perl - us it. I hate PHP for such things too :)

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