finding compile time errors

As I'm learning PHP, I'm making a fair number of mistakes in syntax.

In perl, you can turn on reading these errors from the browser by adding this:

use CGI::Carp 'fatalsToBrowser';

Is there something like this in PHP?

Or do I need to find the php.ini file and look to see where the error log is?

I spent some time trying to figure out why my class constructor crashed until I found that I was writing php5 on a php4 setup. What is most of the established base, is it 4 or 5? I see in the php docs that some examples use 5.3, considering that the latest stable release is 5.2 I can see how there might be a lot of hair lost!

Any recommendations on creating form elements? I've always used CGI.pm which handles all the gotchas. Is there anything that comes with the standard php install? All I really need is radio, select, checkbox and text... I'm used to writing what I need, but I'm also used to not reinventing a wheel that was written by someone far smarter!


Is there a standard include_path being used? Are there any standard extensions for included libararies, generally I'd like them to be seen *only* by the parent script.



Jeff
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