I could be wrong, but I got the feeling that part of the question was along the lines of:<br><br><i>If PHP notices are not permitted, then why do some already-accepted themes generate PHP notices?</i><br><br>One possibility is that a particular theme might offer a wide range of different options/configurations--and only some combinations generate PHP notices. This brings up a good question, which is:<br>
<br><i>To what extent do/should theme reviewers check for PHP notices (or other errors) that only occur when certain theme options are enabled?</i><br><br>This issue extends to W3C validation as well, since most theme options change the HTML output in one way or another. For themes that have a large (possibly infinite) set of configurations, how would someone really know if the theme is capable of producing errors?<br>
<br>-Darren<br><br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 12:47 PM, Otto <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:otto@ottodestruct.com">otto@ottodestruct.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div class="im">On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 12:39 PM, Azizur Rahman<br>
<<a href="mailto:prodevstudio%2Bwordpress@gmail.com">prodevstudio+wordpress@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> Question is should this kind of php notices be OK-ed?<br>
<br>
</div>First item in the Theme Review Guidelines:<br>
<a href="http://codex.wordpress.org/Theme_Review" target="_blank">http://codex.wordpress.org/Theme_Review</a><br>
<br>
"Code Quality: Themes are required not to generate any WordPress<br>
deprecated-function notices, PHP errors, warnings, or notices,<br>
HTML/CSS validation errors, or JavaScript errors."<br>
<br>
So, no.<br>
<br>
Note: "Validation errors" is subjective. The W3C validators ain't<br>
always right. So use your judgement there. But PHP notices are pretty<br>
cut and dry.<br>
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-Otto<br>
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