__LINE__ is incorrect!

[jhurshman]

I am having a very frustrating problem: the value of LINE is wrong.

Here is my test file in its entirety:

<?php
function function_name() {
}
function function_name2() {
}
echo "Line: " . LINE . "<br>";
?>

The output of this should be "Line: 6". However, it's in fact "Line: 4". I've tested this on the following configurations:

• PHP 4.0.3pl1 on NT/IIS4
• PHP 4.0.2 on Mac OS X PB/Apache 1.3.12
• PHP 4.0.3pl1 on Linux/Apache 1.3.14

All of these return the incorrect value for LINE.

This is a big problem for debugging because errors use LINE. It's about 8 times harder to debug an error if you have to spend 10 minutes just locating it.

[visik7]

no it's correct the line is the 6th
infact

1 <?php
2 function function_name() {
3 }
4 function function_name2() {
5 }
6 echo "Line: " . LINE . "<br>";
7 ?>

[jhurshman]

I completely agree the correct value of LINE is 6. However (and this is the problem), when I run the code, the value actually returned is 4. What happens when you try the code?

[jhurshman]

The problem seems to have been caused by the differences between Unix and Windows line feeds/carriage returns.

All better now! Whew!