On 8/2/05, Justin Burger <jburger@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Good Morning, > I was having a discussion with a fellow PHP Developer this morning and he > mentioned that he put's an '@' sign in front of all function calls, and > every time he accesses an array; Any chance of revealing his identity - so that I can make sure that I don't sub-contract him any work. > > I know that this is sloppy, and dangerous, but I don't know exactly what > this exposes him to, can any one give me any real world examples of why > this is bad, so I can relate it to his code? It's bad in that your system normally gives you an error when you do something wrong. Sometimes your code can recover from errors, but your code runs better if the errors aren't there. In production code, you don't want the errors to show up on screen, mainly because you don't want to expose the code you are using on your back end. You fix this by modding the correct parameter in php.ini ( display_errors IIRC ) > > php.net does not have much information about this. It seems like > suppressing errors, rather then catching them is problematic. PHP displays errors for a reason. It is both egotistic, and foolish to assume that your code will always be perfect. Errors enlighten you when your code is not perfect, and give you the opportunity to perfect it. You can achieve a similar effect by setting display_errors to the correct setting. > > > Thanks Again. > > Justin. > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
