Chris Shiflett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >--- James G Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> PHPUnit is available, first release was April, 2002. First >> production release was mid-March, 2004. > >I didn't say this stuff was old or mature, just that it exists. :-) Truly, >PHP feels like it is just now reaching the maturity level that Perl >enjoyed as much as 10 years ago or more. Of course, Perl is much older, so >this is to be expected somewhat.
No problem. PHPUnit is something I would look at for new development on my end though. >> Didn't find anything for `embedded documentation' > >There is PHPDoc, which is basically the same thing as JavaDoc. Perl's >options may be much better, but you can poke around on a site that uses >PHPDoc here: > >http://developer.blueshoes.org/phpdoc/ Cool. I'll keep it in mind. >> Didn't find anything that indicated I could choose to require >> variable declarations before referencing them. > >PHP handles this sort of thing with error reporting. A reference to an >undefined variable throws a notice, and by default, PHP's error reporting >doesn't alert you to notices (only warnings and above). > >A common recommendation is to develop with error_reporting set to E_ALL, >and display_errors enabled (and of course to initialize all variables). >Then, in production, log errors instead of display them (or in PHP 5, set >up a more professional system altogether). At any rate, using E_ALL is >basically the same thing as use strict. This is definitely something I need. Thanks for the pointers. -- James Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, 979-862-3725 Texas A&M CIS Operating Systems Group, Unix -- Report problems: http://perl.apache.org/bugs/ Mail list info: http://perl.apache.org/maillist/modperl.html List etiquette: http://perl.apache.org/maillist/email-etiquette.html
