Debugging tools

[Jim O'Leary]

Yes, I have error reporting turned on. Actually you can do this without
touching php.ini. Just create a file called, say, "ini_set.php" and put the
following code in it:

  // E_ALL is 8191, E_NOTICE is 8.
  // See http://ca.php.net/manual/en/ref.errorfunc.php#errorfunc.constants
  ini_set("display_errors","On");
  $error_reporting =8191 & ~8;
  ini_set("error_reporting",$error_reporting);

Then reference it in each PHP program that you want errors to display:

include "../ini_set.php";

My point, however, is that MagGuide, either through PHP or through some
other exception, did not generate an error at all. It would have been
helpful to get an error message, like,

"You are trying to add a point to a batch property collection, but you don't
have a point definition in your layer definition schema".
       

   
Jason Birch wrote:
> 
> So there was a PHP error that was not returning?
> 
> I believe that the php.ini file that ships with MapGuide has error
> reporting turned off.  If you turn it on, maybe you would get what you
> need in your case?
> 
> Jason 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jim O'Leary [mailto:joleary.public at gmail.com] 
> Sent: Thursday, September 07, 2006 08:21
> To: users at mapguide.osgeo.org
> Subject: [mapguide-users] Debugging tools
> 
> 
> Are there any debugging tools for MapGuide OS? When I add an enhancement
> to an existing sample, the enhancement does not appear but there is no
> indication from the application where the problem lies.
> 
> For example, recently I set out to add point redlining to the line
> redlining sample, draw_line.php, modifying the code from
> create_new_point_layer_definition.php and adding it to draw_line.php.
> However, the map continued to redline the lines, but not the points,
> with no debug messages.
> 
> I got deep into the code and realized I had to add a PointTypeStyle
> section to the layerDefinition. I could find nothing in the
> documentation or in the output of the program to indicate that this was
> the problem. It took me several hours to do this.
> 
> I think that developers who want to use the MapGuide APIs should not
> have to get into the code at the level of a core developer in order to
> use it. I suspect that many would not have the time to do that. A
> debugging tool would be most helpful.
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