PHP and undefined variables strategy

Question

I am a C++ programmer starting with PHP. I find that I lose most of the debugging time (and my selfesteem!) due to undefined variables. From what I know, the only way to dea

Answer 1

Good practice is to define all variable before use, i.e., set a default value:

$variable = default_value;

This will solve most problems. As suggested before, use Xdebug or built-in debugging tools in editors like NetBeans.