looking for a compiler that will give me better insight into errors

program for finding PHP errors

[will1480]

I use NS7 for finding javascript errors. Is there anything out there similar for PHP?

[jatar_k]

you could set your error_reporting [ca.php.net] to E_ALL and that will give more notices etc..

I wouldn't use that for production though, only dev servers.

Essentially any syntax errors are displayed in the browser with a reason and a line number so it is pretty easy to find.

[will1480]

yeah, ive heard that command before now that I think of it. Do i just insert E_ALL; on the first line of my php scripts? Thanks for the input.

[jatar_k]

it can be set in a script using the function

it can also be set in php.ini

[ergophobe]

I have xDebug on my development system. It gives you a stack trace on execution error (not parse error) which helps a *little* bit (at least you know how many times a function was called before failure).

There is an interactive mode as well, but I haven't actually used it.