I Wasted 12 Hours

General Miscellaneous
1

I wasted 12 hours debugging this …




$total = 0;

foreach($model->rels as $rel);

{

    $total += $rel->count;

}

echo $total; // wrong result!!

Who in the hell wrote that wicked semicolon? Me?

In the real source, the relation was a little bit complicated, and I wasted time examining it.

2

It happens sometimes, especially when it’s time to sleep ;)

3

Exactly. :D

Going to bed was the right solution to me.

4

Yeaah, such typos are the most difficult ones to fix.

Thanks for showing it, might probably save 12 hrs to someone else :)

5

That’s why Gods created 1TBS.

6

Yeah, I have to confess that I regretted a bit of my coding style preference.

BTW, is there any clever IDE to warn this kind of possible mistake?

7

Code is valid so I doubt any IDE will complain. Yii2 code style will be better in this regard.

8

So, I finally changed my IDE from NetBeans to PhpStorm.

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phpstorm.png

It underscores $rel and says “Variable ‘rel’ might have not been defined.”

PhpStorm reads the code … You feel like you are doing the "pair programming" with someone who is clever enough.

9

Haha so recognizable, I allmost killed my computer for a semicolon like that :).

Thanks for the tip about PHPStorm, gonne take a look into that. I’m using Aptana and it won’t give me heads up about this either.