Configuration

There's obviously a configuration difference between my development server
(running Debian) and a production server I use (running Slackware). On my
development server, no error is produced in the following statement if $a
hasn't been initialized:

$b = $a;

$a simply returns a null string. On the production server, this is an
undefined variable error. Likewise the following

$a = $_POST['someVar'];

Gets no error on development, but does on production if $_POST['someVar'] is
undefined.

What configuration parameters control this?

tia
---Michael

Michael Satterwhite wrote:
>
> There's obviously a configuration difference between my development
server
> (running Debian) and a production server I use (running Slackware).
On my
> development server, no error is produced in the following statement
if $a
> hasn't been initialized:
>
> $b = $a;
>
> $a simply returns a null string. On the production server, this is an
> undefined variable error. Likewise the following
>
> $a = $_POST['someVar'];
>
> Gets no error on development, but does on production if
$_POST['someVar']
> is undefined.
>
> What configuration parameters control this?

The error_reporting directive:

http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.err...rror-reporting

It is often recommended that you do the opposite of what you have
right now -- set high level of error reporting on the development
server and low one on the production server and not move into
production environment until errors stop popping up...

Cheers,
NC