[wp-hackers] PHP notice warnings

Kirk Steffensen blogger at steffensenfamily.com
Thu Sep 20 13:22:29 GMT 2007


I just turn them all on on my dev box.

That way if a user has two plugins that are conflicting mildly and would
throw a warning but not break their site, they don't get a bunch of php text
at the top of their page.

Kirk

On 9/20/07, Omry Yadan <omry at yadan.net> wrote:
>
> WordPress hide PHP notices by default:
>
>
> from wp-settings.php:
> // Change to E_ALL for development/debugging
> error_reporting(E_ALL ^ E_NOTICE);
>
> This promotes writing of bad code both in the core and in plugins.
>
>
> I understand that turning notices back on will break a lot of plugins,
> but maybe it's worth doing this for the next major version.
>
> having notice turned on helps to catch a lot of problems early in the
> development, and will actually help plugin authors write better plugins
>
>
> what do you guys think?
>
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