Explicit declaration of variables

[magilla]

I'm a old timer programmer (assembler, fortran, pascal, C) and now
converting from PERL to PHP. In PERL I always use the "use strict" to
force warning messages of undeclared variables. I haven't been able to
find anything similar in PHP, is there such an option? When you type
as bad as I do, having the PHP interpretor/compiler find misspelled
variable names expedites the debugging process.

Magilla...

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Re: Explicit declaration of variables

"magilla" <jim.richardson @jax.org> wrote in message
news:1137506263 .350278.111170@ g47g2000cwa.goo glegroups.com.. .[color=blue]
> I'm a old timer programmer (assembler, fortran, pascal, C) and now
> converting from PERL to PHP. In PERL I always use the "use strict" to
> force warning messages of undeclared variables. I haven't been able to
> find anything similar in PHP, is there such an option? When you type
> as bad as I do, having the PHP interpretor/compiler find misspelled
> variable names expedites the debugging process.
>
> Magilla...
>[/color]

If you turn your error reporting on:

http://uk.php.net/error_reporting

It will indeed give you helpful messages like:

Notice: Undefined variable: somethin in /blah/woo/waah.php

:)