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 > > > > > -- > 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