Request for Comments: CLI option for "strict mode"

• Version: 1.0
• Date: 2011-07-05
• Author: Adam Harvey aharvey@php.net
• Status: Under Discussion
• First Published at: http://wiki.php.net/rfc/cli-strict

This RFC seeks to add an option to the CLI SAPI that would enable the display of errors and the maximum level of error reporting.

The proposed option would be -W, with --strict as the long form option. No argument would be accepted; this is a purely boolean 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 letter for something that's equivalent to php -d display_errors=1 -d error_reporting=-1.

• Patch: http://www.adamharvey.name/patches/php-cli-strict.patch.txt

• 2011-07-05: Initial proposal.