Originally Posted by xenon

Yes, you did miss your semicolon However, this thing you're doing it's not called 'error muting', it's called error suppression. What's really happening is this: the error is still thrown in the back, except it's not shown to you. That's why this is bad and you should rather use error_reporting to control when and what errors to show. Oh, and because it's global. You don't have to set error_reporting before any statement, you just put it in the beginning of the script and that's it. You can, however set error reporting to a certain level until some point of your script, then change its value (turn it on/off depending on the case). Not the case with error suppression, where the @ must be in front of EVERY statement that throws some kind of error/notice/warning.