Re: Stricter Error Checking?

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Hi,

There is, see here (or it can also be set through php.ini):

http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.error-reporting.php

You are looking for E_STRICT.

Regards,

Jonathan

On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 3:11 PM, Tim Legg <kc0ofc@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I just spent way, way to much time trying to debug code due to a misnamed element.  Here is a simplified example of the problem I dealt with.
>
>
>        $test = "SELECT * FROM `Materials` WHERE `Part_Number` = '125664'";
>        $result = mysql_query($test,$handle);
>        if(!$result)
>        {
>                die('Error: ' . mysql_error());
>        }
>        $row = mysql_fetch_array($result);
>        echo $row['Number'];
>
> After retyping the code 3 or 4 times over the course of the morning, I finally found where the problem was.  The problem is that the database field is called 'Part_Number', not 'Number'.  The field 'Number' does not exist in the database.  I am very surprised that I didn't even get a warning that there might be a problem with the statement.  All I saw is that nothing was being returned via the echo command.
>
> There really must be a stricter error checking that is turned on somewhere, isn't there?
>
>
> Thanks for your help.
>
> Tim
>
>
>
>
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