PHP question

[gaf at blu.org (Jerry Feldman)]

I've got them turned down in production. I was just curious to see a
preferred method. 

 On Sat, 07 Apr 2007 16:28:38 -0400
Danny Robert <daniel.robert at acm.org> wrote:

> Typically these messages are "avoided" by turning down the error
> reporting level once in production.  The isset() approach is a fine way
> of doing it, or just seeing the messages while developing, then turning
> down the logging level in production is fine too.
> 
> -Danny
> 
> Jerry Feldman wrote:
> > Just a followup. I added the following lines that were very useful. 
> > error_reporting(E_ALL);
> > ini_set('display_errors', 1);
> > ini_set('display_startup_errors ',1);
> > There were 2 problems. One was a result of register_globals being off.
> > I fixed that with:
> > $VAR = $_POST['VAR'];
> > The other was I was using $PHP_SELF, and it is not $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'].
> >
> > The script now works correctly. 
> > But, one more quesiton. When I have the debugging turned on, it reports
> > that $_POST['VAR'] is not set.
> > Notice: Undefined index: VAR in script.php on line 6
> > I can fix this with:
> > if (isset($_POST['VAR'] )
> > 	$VAR = $_POST['VAR'];
> > Is there a better way of doing this to avoid the messages. 
> >
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