Posted by Marek Kilimajer on 01/19/05 13:51

Justin French wrote:
> On 19/01/2005, at 5:36 PM, William Stokes wrote:
>
>> I would like to add some debugging/info code to my pages. In test
>> environment of course. Any ideas how to do this? I mean for example to
>> print
>> to a web page the line number when the script fails or something like
>> that.
>> It's a pain on the **s to hunt typo's by just reading the source over and
>> over again.
>
>
> William,
>
> I start by trying to programatically find out if I'm in a development or
> production environment and setting a constant DEV to true or false. For
> me, I development things on my desktop Mac, so the server and client are
> the same machine, and share the same IP address. So my check for DEV is
> if the client IP and server IP match.
>
> <? define('DEV',($_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR']==$_SERVER['SERVER_ADDR'])); ?>

Interesting. So I just need to use the same hosting server as you do and
your scripts will tell me interesting facts ;)

I use simple define('DEBUG', true'); in the main config file where also
database login info is stored.

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