As my web app is coming to completion, I added a means to search records
(different from site search).
This involves reading post input and is many cases converting it to an
integer.
Damn I feel dumb.
The search app wasn't working, so I did what I often do when
troubleshooting crap - I put a die($variable) at various points to see
if the variable is what it is suppose to be.
I kept getting blank returns from die after the conversion from a post
string to an integer. I looked in the apache logs, system logs, I even
tried rebooting - I couldn't figure why the smurf the variable wasn't
converting to integer.
I even turned off eaccelerator in case that was causing it, though it
never has given me issue before (except once when I was doing something
in a really shoddy way - cleaned up my method and it behaved)
After several hours contemplating if I had bad RAM, an issue with the
CPU, verifying my RPMs were good, wondering why I wasn't getting
anything in the logs, it dawned on me.
If variable is an integer, die($var) returns nothing and is suppose to
return nothing, it takes a string as an argument to echo on death -
die("$var") is what I wanted.
I need sleep.
I did finally find the error and fix the record search problem.
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