Dink Software

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error_reporting(E_ALL);
ini_set('display_errors',1);

will display all PHP errors (which are often hidden/not displayed depending on the PHP settings used) when running a script.

I just used it to find a (stupid) problem I was having. I couldn't for the life of me work out why form contents were not being recovered with $_POST, when in fact as I discovered in the end, they actually were and it was a stupid mistake after that causing the unexpected outcome (the variables holding the $_POST data being empty).

The mistake was

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$var = strip_tags($_POST["var"]);
$var= mysql_real_escape_string($var);

which is fine if you are connected to a MySQL database, althoguh in this instance I wasn't and with only fatal errors messages on by default, it didn't show/state this until I put on the additional error reporting at the start of the post.

Grr, having problems currents with dynamic fields/arrays and posting them... What I was going to say though was, don't about

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print_r($arrayName);

which will (in most cases) print the contents of an array so you cna see what is/each index of it holds.