Posted by Justin French on 01/19/05 15:39

On 19/01/2005, at 10:51 PM, Marek Kilimajer wrote:

> 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 ;)

That's a good point... Not that by debugging lines have anything
dangerous in them, but it's still not right... Thanks... I think I'll
revisit that line of code before anything goes live :)

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

I like to use exactly the same files for both development and live
servers... it makes it much easier to mirror the site via FTP, commit
via SVN, etc.

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Justin French, Indent.com.au
justin.french@indent.com.au
Web Application Development & Graphic Design

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