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Dear PHP-God(s)(ess)(esses)

by chrissie1 on Jun 11, 2008 in categories Server Programming, PHP
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Dear PHP-God(s)(ess)(esses),

I would like to tell you a little story. Once upon a time there was a very nice programming language although they called it Basic. But Basic was not very userfriendly so they made it Visual. At the same time they added some real cool features. Features that made it a mature and responsible language. A nice language to write in. The two best features were

SET OPTION EXPLICIT ON

and

SET OPTION STRICT ON

I will not explain what they do, I know that you are very smart and that you will figure it out. So PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE can you give us the same option to save us from despear. The computer really doesn’t like it that I curse and swear like that.
So if we could have this in version 6 I would be ever so grateful and I promise to be a nice uhm, … big boy.

Yours sincerely,

chrissie1.

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User bio imageChristiaan is a forensic technician who programs on the side, although my function description says that I do IT-things for 90% of the time . I'm an avid VB.NET fan and I use lots of the ALT.Net techniques, like unit-testing, nhibernate, logging, IoC, ...
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Comment from: Alex Ullrich [Member] Email
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Pretty please?
11/06/08 @ 12:31
Comment from: foamcow [Member] Email
What does it do?
11/06/08 @ 16:08
Comment from: traingamer [Member] Email
When would you have php tell you variables are undefined?
12/06/08 @ 08:28
Comment from: chrissie1 [Member] Email
OPTION EXPLICIT ON makes sure you have to dclare variabeles.

OPTION STRICT ON makes it that datatypes have to match so you can put an in in a stringvariable.

At worst at compile time at best via the GUI.
12/06/08 @ 10:43
Comment from: Donald Organ [Visitor] · http://blog.donaldorgan.com
Doesnt enabling PHP 5's strict mode enable this.
13/06/08 @ 08:29
Comment from: ncloud [Visitor] · http://blog.nicholascloud.com
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If you want strong typing, switch languages. I can count on one hand the number of times that explicit typing in PHP would have prevented a problem, and even then, the problem was fairly easy to debug.
13/06/08 @ 08:41
Comment from: BlaM [Visitor] Email · http://blogs.interdose.com/dominik
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Although I'd really like to have an "OPTION EXPLICIT" thing, I don't think that it would be of much use, because all available libraries that you really want to use don't define their variables, so they become virtually non-existant to your products. :(
13/06/08 @ 09:02
Comment from: André Medeiros [Visitor] Email · http://blog.andremedeiros.info
Well, you could do two things:

1)
error_reporting(E_ALL);
ini_set('display_errors', '1');

2)
Set an error handling function that will crash and burn your application when any error occurs. That would weed out most of your problems.
13/06/08 @ 09:46
Comment from: chrissie1 [Member] Email
For those of you that don't see the humor of this post.

I helped write this site (the glue between the components). And as you can see it is in php. I don't hate it, I just miss those two things.
13/06/08 @ 09:54

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