[RESOLVED] PHP -l not showing line numbers

hsnopi

Hello All,

I am running php 5.3 on windows vista. (my wifes laptop) When i run php -l file.php I get "Errors Parsing file.php" and that is it. I introduced errors at the top of the file (missing semicolon) to test it and got the same thing. I used the php-5.3.10-nts-Win32-VC9-x86 and have the paths set up. On a file with no errors it gives "No syntax errors found" so it is working but it isn't showing errors. I am using php-win.exe -l, but I get the same result with php or php-win. I am fairly experienced coder but my admin skills are weak. As I am only running CL stuff I did not install a web server. I think the issue is in the .ini file but not sure which.

Any help at all appreciated.

thanks
Me

bradgrafelman

This sounds rather similar to an old PHP bug (#25482).

I wouldn't think any setting in your .ini file would affect the lint check mode of PHP, however as a test have you tried renaming or moving your .ini file (meaning PHP won't be able to find it and should revert to the built-in default values for all directives)? Do you have any other Zend software installed?

Also, which package did you use to install PHP, the .zip or the .msi download?

EDIT: Also, thread moved to Install forum (this seems more like a compilation/installation error rather than one caused by the Windows OS itself).

hsnopi

Thanks,
I used the .msi. No other software other then the default settings for the .msi package.

renamed php.ini to OLDphp.ini.
running it now
WORKS
THANK YOU.
Any idea what had caused it? I hadn't altered anything in the .ini to begin with.

bradgrafelman

Strange... are you absolutely positive the command you were/are executing is:

php -l <filename>

(that's "php", hyphen, lower case L, path to the file of interest)?

Also, could you post your original .ini file so we can see what it looks like?

hsnopi

yup...
tryng to upload a screenshot. in the meantime here is the .ini

Ok they are attached.

Derokorian

Found this while researching the issue, from PHP.net:

It requires that you enable error reporting via your own php.ini file

Also not stated there is that display_errors must also be turned on (found this through basic trial and error) and looking at your OLDphp.ini you have error_reporting set to E_ALL &~ E_DEPRECATED however your display_errors is set to off.

hsnopi

ah ok. thanks! Hopefully this will help someone else too.