Request for Comments: CLI options for strict and quiet modes

• Version: 1.1
• Date: 2011-07-06
• Author: Adam Harvey aharvey@php.net
• Status: Inactive
• First Published at: http://wiki.php.net/rfc/cli-strict

This RFC seeks to add options to the CLI SAPI that would enable all and no error display.

The proposed option to display all errors would be -W, with --strict as the long form option. No argument would be accepted; this is a purely boolean option.

Similarly, the option to hide all errors would be -Q, with --quiet as the long form option.

• This makes debugging command line code easier, by providing a single option that can be turned on to make PHP maximally noisy.
• Other languages have equivalents: Perl has -w (which doesn't enable use strict, although I suspect most Perl users wish it did). Ruby also has -w.

• Uses up another two letters for something that's equivalent to php -d display_errors=1 -d error_reporting=-1 and php -d display_errors=0 -d error_reporting=0, respectively.

• v1.1 patch (-W and -Q): http://www.adamharvey.name/patches/php-cli-strict-quiet.patch.txt
• v1.0 patch (-W only): http://www.adamharvey.name/patches/php-cli-strict.patch.txt

• 2011-07-06: Add a -Q option in response to IRC and mailing list feedback.
• 2011-07-05: Initial proposal.