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Is there a way that I enforce that PHP reports error if I use an uninitialized/undefined variable?

I made a huge mistake by mixing result with results and it took me around 4 hours to finally find the bug.

So here is the question, in PHP, is it possible that I can enforce PHP to report errors if I use an undefined/uninitialized variable.

thank you

Solution

  • Set error reporting to E_ALL and ensure that display_errors in php.ini is on.

    php.ini

    display_errors = On

    PHP code

    // If you cannot access the php.ini file
// you can do this within your PHP code instead
@ini_set('display_errors' '1');
error_reporting(E_ALL);

    The default setting you have right now probably excludes notices, the kind of errors PHP raises on uninitialized variables, which could be something like this:

    error_reporting(E_ALL & ~E_NOTICE);