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3greeneggs.com: What do those PHP errors really mean, anyway?

3greeneggs.com: What do those PHP errors really mean, anyway?:

I’d like to dispell the myth that errors are a bad thing. Errors are not a bad thing. Errors are a good thing! They tell you exactly what to fix, and exactly where to fix it. The only mystery is in actually interpretting the language of the error, which is another skill that beginning coders have yet to master. What does the PHP interpreter really mean when it says “unexpected T_VARIABLE”? What’s a T_VARIABLE, anyway?

Good quick explanation of some common errors in php code, useful if you are using TextMate or even Zend’s IDE to validate syntax before testing in the web server environment

(Via PHPDeveloper.org.)