On Wed, 2005-01-19 at 05:51, Marek Kilimajer wrote:
> Justin French wrote:
> > On 19/01/2005, at 5:36 PM, William Stokes wrote:
> >
> >> I would like to add some debugging/info code to my pages. In test
> >> environment of course. Any ideas how to do this? I mean for example to
> >> print
> >> to a web page the line number when the script fails or something like
> >> that.
> >> It's a pain on the **s to hunt typo's by just reading the source over and
> >> over again.
> >
> >
> > William,
> >
> > I start by trying to programatically find out if I'm in a development or
> > production environment and setting a constant DEV to true or false. For
> > me, I development things on my desktop Mac, so the server and client are
> > the same machine, and share the same IP address. So my check for DEV is
> > if the client IP and server IP match.
> >
> > <? define('DEV',($_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR']==$_SERVER['SERVER_ADDR'])); ?>
>
> Interesting. So I just need to use the same hosting server as you do and
> your scripts will tell me interesting facts ;)
>
> I use simple define('DEBUG', true'); in the main config file where also
> database login info is stored.
>
for complicated stuff I will usually place if $(DEBUG >N ){echo stuff}
lines in the code so I can easily print interesting stuff in various
parts of the script then if I hit a problem place a $DEBUG=1; or
whatever level I want at the top of the script; This way I can turn it
off and on without making code changes other than setting $DEBUG = 0;
when moving to production. This causes some additional work in
production but I suppose if I had that many ifs in there I could write a
script to remove the $DEBUG { } blocks from the code during the move to
production.
Since we are on the topic, does anyone have such an animal? If I write
one, would anyone be interested in it?
Bret
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