Question

I am getting occasional Undefined offset issues when parsing a large file inside PHP.

How can I display the variables ONLY when the error occurs, to see what the issue is?

The error is occuring at this point of my php

list($export_date, $application_id, $language_code, $title, $description, $release_notes, $company_url, $suppport_url, $screenshot_url_1, $screenshot_url_2, $screenshot_url_3, $screenshot_url_4, $screenshot_width_height_1, $screenshot_width_height_2, $screenshot_width_height_3, $screenshot_width_height_4,$ipadscreenshot_url_1, $ipadscreenshot_url_2, $ipadscreenshot_url_3, $ipadscreenshot_url_4, $ipadscreenshot_width_height_1, $ipadscreenshot_width_height_2, $ipadscreenshot_width_height_3, $ipadscreenshot_width_height_4 ) = explode($delimiter, $line);

So I would like to echo all the variables on the offset error, if no error, just move onto the next record without doing anything.

Answer 1

the error will occur if explode($delimiter, $line) didn’t return as much parameters as the list statement requires, you can check if that’s the case like this:

$parts = explode($delimiter, $line);
if(count($parts)!=20) { //say your list needs 20 elements
  echo '20 parts expected, got '. count($parts). '<br />';//consider using error_log than echoing data
  var_dump($line, $parts);
} else {
  list($export_date, $application_id, $language_code /*fill others*/) = $parts;
}