[Webdev] making stuff up

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Actually, no, I was wrong...

> Can you tell PHP to warn you if you use a non declared variable ? I've
> just noticed that after doing:
>
>  class something {
>     var $a
>  }
>
>  you can do
>
>  $thing = new something;
>  $thing->b = adsas;
>
You can *set* an undeclared variable in (or outside) a class and PHP won't
throw an error - PHP's OOP functionality is not "correct" OOP, and they've
never prentended it was. The only way it will throw an error is if you try
and /work with/ an undeclared variable, like:

if ($thing->b) {
	...
}

adam