With a little PHP humor to lighten the day, Alan Knowles has suggested a new PHP error reporting level - E_ANAL.

While E_STRICT has been quite sucessfull in getting people to migrate from C# and Java, there is a sense that it is not quite complete. Apparently quite a number of them are missing their fatal exceptions on mundane issues). hence the new planned E_ANAL notices will start appearing when:

• you forget to declare a variable type before using it. (just giving it a default value doesnt count)
• you try and do boolean tests on strings, integers, object (or anything that isnt a boolean)
• string comparison on non-strings (although I'm tempted to suggest this for E_STRICT)
• you declare a function (that's not part of a class)
• you forget to put the return type of a method.
• you forget to wrap a method call that can throw an exception in a try{ } catch block.
• you make any property public (only available with the E_ANAL_JAVA extension).
• any usage of PHP native array's or array functions.
• any method call that does not involve at least 3 objects.
• using any variable name that matches a object or method name anywhere in the imported methods or functions.

Developers are still open to new ideas for it.

Ah, if only....