Warning: Undefined variable

Anon

my scripts seem to be getting these warning messages, but not consistently all the time ... is there something i can do (besides cleaning up the code) to "supress" the output of these messages? is there another way of initializing a string variable, say, besides $somevar = "";?

Anon

You can turn this off in the php.ini file by setting error_reporting = E_ALL & ~E_NOTICE (which is the default anyway).

~E_NOTICE is saying NOT to include that class of warnings (which includes uninitialized variable usage).

Or at the top of your script you can say:

error_reporting(7);

Jack

Anon

This line: error_reporting(7); works!

What is the "proper" way to do this? Should all variable be initialized in the script header? (I am just starting to learn)

If you don't mind, what is the proper syntax for initializing variables as in this example?

Thanks,
Darryl

Anon

This works for me...

comment out the line "error_reporting" in your php.ini file...

if you are hosted with someone who has this set to 2047 or some other value, ask them to comment this line out... so that it says "no value" in your phpinfo() page...

You will not only get the errors and line numbers that break in your code... Notices, Warnings, etc... will be taken out...

If for any reason you need to turn these on you can do so in your php code using...

error_reporting()
* inside the () you will need a value... A complete list of values are here:
http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.error-reporting.php

For the server side and for a description of each value go here:
http://www.php.net/manual/en/phpdevel-errors.php

Hope this helps...

Anon

Sorry I had a typo...

You will not only get the errors and line numbers that break in your code... Notices, Warnings, etc... will be taken out...

should read

You will now only get the errors and line numbers that break in your code... Notices, Warnings, etc... will be taken out...