It will return that the syntax is ok. But when you execute that you get the error.

Anyone up to it, or is there already such a thing?

Okay, JavaScript. But it would be even cooler to have a lint-y thing for PHP, like pychecker for Python, http://pychecker.sourceforge.net/

Anyone up to it, or is there already such a thing?

Since PHP4, there has been the -l (thats a lower case L) flag for the PHP binary, L standing for Lint, it’ll find parse errors.

In PHP5, there is the nice userland function php_check_syntax() [http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.php-check-syntax.php]

- Davey

php -l filename.php

(that’s a lowercase L by the way). The CLI version has a lint command built into it. If you want to create a web based interface for something like SimpleTest, all you need to do is run it as a system command to check for errors.

A multi-language lint would be better. Seeing as php scripts can contain js, php, html, xml, etc, you’d really want the lint check to be able to detect which language it is parsing at the time. I think I’ll just chuck that idea in the too hard basket though.