Entry

Is there perl like 'strict' swicth to php

Mar 13th, 2000 18:30
Kris Erickson, Jani Averbach, http://www.php.net/manual/function.error-reporting.php3

The closest thing to 'strict' in PHP is setting error_reporting to
E_ALL.

This will warn you of instances where you are comparing values before 
they are set, and similar questionable situations that may be typos.  
I.e.

$var1 = "foo"

if ("foo" == $varl) {
  do_something();
} else {
  do_nothing();
}

will be caught with a warning that you are trying to compare a variable 
before it is set.  However due to the nature of PHP (you cannot declare 
variables, only initialize them) there really can be nothing exactly 
the same as strict.

NOTE: error_reporting seems to have a lot of issues in PHP4betas on 
Unix.  It seems to setting at the beginning of a script seems to set 
error reporting for PHP on the server and can only be reset by 
restarting apache.  This may be fixed by now, but it has been an issue 
in the past.