Re: Stupid is as Stupid does

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Use var_dump() to see contents of a variable. It will print something even 
if variable is empty or undefined.

""Michael A. Peters"" <mpeters@xxxxxxx> píse v diskusním príspevku 
news:49A79416.6060208@xxxxxxxxxx
> 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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