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

I really didn't find a direct answer already here. The actual solution I found to this problem is to use PHP Code Sniffer along with this awesome extension called PHP Code Sniffer Variable Analysis.

Also the regular PHP linter (php -l) is available inside PHP Code Sniffer, so I'm thinking about customizing my configuration for regular PHP linting, detecting unused/uninitialized variables and validating my own code style, all in one step.

My very minimal PHPCS configuration:

    Minimal PHP Syntax check