2017-06-14



This is some real-world code I came across:

     error_reporting(8192 + // E_DEPRECATED
                     2048 + // E_STRICT
                     2047); // E_ALL

It better would be rewritten to:

     error_reporting(E_DEPRECATED | E_STRICT | E_ALL);

The reason is that the latter is self-documenting, in contrast to
the former.


Unfortunately, if you want to set the error reporting level in  a
.htaccess file, then you have to use the numbers, as the symbolic
names are only known within the PHP interpreter. This  might  had
been  the  reason  for the programmer to write the actual numbers
there, so he could look them up when changing the .htaccess file.
But  this should not be necessary. Within the .htaccess file only
three choices should be of need: (1) the default setting, i.e. do
not  set  it at all, (2) value `0' for no warnings, and (3) value
`-1' for all warnings. If you need more than  that,  then  rather
work it out within your PHP code, I'd say.




http://marmaro.de/lue/        markus schnalke <meillo@marmaro.de>