Finding PHP coding faults

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Hi all, from your own personal use, what tool would you personally recommend for finding coding faults in PHP files please? Thanks. Dez.

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Some of the better IDEs will highlight php errors for you. For example, PHPStorm, and NetBeans do syntax checking.

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It depends on what you mean by “fault”

As WebMachine posted, some IDEs can find synax errors for you.

But as an extremely simple contrived example:

function return_greater($a, $b) {
 return min($a, $b);
}

will not be found as a syntax error, as it isn’t.

To find logic errors writing and using some form of unit testing is a good idea.

More work up front, but it can be a big time saver making debugging a lot easier later on.

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