Is there something in PHP similar to Option Explicit in VB [duplicate]

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Strict mode in PHP?

I am doing a big project in PHP. In PHP you do not need to declare variables. This is causing a lot of problems for me.

In Visual Basic 6, the Option Explicit statement makes it mandatory to declare variables. Is something similar available in PHP?

Answer 1

If you turn on E_NOTICE error messages, PHP will tell you about uninitialized variables:

ini_set("error_reporting", E_ALL);

Uninitialized is a little bit different than undeclared, but it should give you a similar effect.