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JM at Work
JM at Work

Reputation: 2437

PHP does not appear to warn me when I try to instantiate a non-existent class

I am using PHP5.3 namespaced classes. A common mistake is not getting the namespaces right (Absolute vs relative eg. \App\Models\Something vs Models\Something vs \Something). I commonly use PDO in my classes so that PHP tries to look in \App\PDO for example

I already have 

ini_set('display_errors', 'ON');
ini_set('error_reporting', 'E_ALL | E_STRICT');

I notice sometimes when I am doing

$user = new User(); // when User should be located \App\User or App\User as I am in the root namespace, PHP does not trigger errors ... just give me a blank screen ...

Upvotes: 0

Views: 71

Answers (3)

Shef
Shef

Reputation: 45589

Your code should be like this:

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

Furthermore, confirm that you are allowed to change php settings via ini_set(), or not, because you might think you are changing display_errors and error_reporting, but you might not be allowed to. That is, although your code executes, the parser does not take into account your settings.

Upvotes: 0

Francois Deschenes
Francois Deschenes

Reputation: 24989

Both your lines are wrong:

ini_set('display_errors', true);
ini_set('error_reporting', E_ALL | E_STRICT);

The values shouldn't be in quotes.

Upvotes: 1

Matthew
Matthew

Reputation: 48304

The single quotes in the second argument are wrong. It is being evaluated as 0.

ini_set('error_reporting', 'E_ALL | E_STRICT');

// same as:

ini_set('error_reporting', 0);

See this page for some valid examples of what you could pass as the second argument.

Once you fix that you will get:

PHP Fatal error:  Class 'Foo' not found

Upvotes: 0

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