Hello Friends i wanted To know if Any PHP Correctiong softwares are available or not.?

What i mean is ,Like If i have a Page with error on line 25 , And Is there any software which can scan and Correct the Php errors?


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Casanova !

This post has been edited by microscopic^earthling: Jul 5 2005, 09:30 AM

I don't know if you'll go for the software I will be recommending. It does check for errors in your php scripts [amongst other languages] and it does show you the debug information so you can fix the errors, it just doesn't correct the errors for you. It's called PHP Designer 2005. It's a very nice environment that lets you not only code in php, but in other languages too like HTML CSS JS Java VB C# etc. It's a very useful piece of software - a diamond in the rough if you will. Here's the link.

http://www.mpsoftware.dk/downloads.php

By the way, you will also need to install the PHP.exe from php.net so that you will be able to debug your scripts. Just go to downloads.php.net and download the newest version.

I don't think there is such a program availible because the checker would act like a spelling checker and we all know how badly they can mess up a document with correctly spelled wrong words.

Because the program wouldn't really know what you wanted it to do, it may FIX your script in a way other than what you wanted.

For example let's look at the following php error:


We are missing a single quote somewhere right?
But what is the solution. Here are three possible solutions:




Which is right, well all are right in certain cases.
The first being the most obvious choice but may still be wrong your your needs.
The second really looks wrong but that is only because "hello" and "world" are assumed to be strings and not constants. If the words are defined as constants, then the second or even the third solution is correct.

Creating a program smart enough to determine the right course of action to take would be complex. For example; what if you accidentally deleted severl lines of code and then the checker fixed whatever was left, Then the repair would be based on the partial code and the script wouldn't work as intended.

Like reading a book with the middle half missing, you can try to figure out what happened in the missing section but in the end, did Dorthy meet the Tin Man in a forrest or in a junk yard. If you imagined that they met in the junk yard, then his ax would be a mystery during the entire ending of the book. (Wizard of Oz)

Hope this sheds some light on the issue.

vujsa

How would one go about correctly installing the php.exe program so that it doesn't interfere with the rest of the operating system or such like that? Also, how much room does the php program and/or PHP Designer take up on the hard drive? Just wondering, since I already have some pretty hefty sized programs already on my computer.