Re: Friday morning brain farts....

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On Fri, August 10, 2007 10:43 am, Robert Cummings wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-08-10 at 11:40 -0400, Daniel Brown wrote:
>> On 8/10/07, Stut <stuttle@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> > If PHP thinks something might be wrong it will tell you. Why on
>> earth
>> > would you want to ignore it? You think you're smarter than PHP?
>> Really?
>>
>>     Okay, Stut, let's not make Friday the official "Flame Dan Brown"
>> holiday this week.  I vote that it should be later in the year.
>>
>>     However, it should also be noted that my development is never
>> done
>> on a production server attached to the Internet, for one; and on my
>> development machine, E_NOTICE is always enabled.  I just fail to see
>> the benefit in alerting visitors to the site that there may have
>> been
>> something overlooked at some point.
>
> Why would it alert visitors? You don't have display errors set to on
> for
> a production server do you? *EEEEEEEEEK*. Send it to a log file. The
> reason it's good to enable notices on a production server is because
> your visitors are like a horde of testers, they'll probably hit every
> nook and cranny of your code that you might have missed during
> testing.

There are a few billion Google pages that show that way too many web
developers have display_errors "ON".

I'd STILL say they're better off with E_NOTICE!

If they're not bright enough to set things up with errors going to log
files, they're DEFINITELY not bright enough to write code without
E_NOTICE turned on. :-)

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