[Dragonsys]

Originally Posted by jagtpf

Funnily enough some things that don't work on the test site, work on the live (and vice versa).

This usually happens because of hard coded variables, or something which makes the script not be universal (lazy coding, or different strictness settings in PHP)

Originally Posted by jagtpf

But some long scripts that involve a lot of actions, how do you keep track? It seems inefficient to play guessing at least some of the time and not to be able to use a good php/xml editor/diagnostic to check.

I use Notepad++ for the coding, and then test on my test sites (one on Windows/IIS and one on Linux/Apache). I have a few scripts with thousands of lines, and have never had an issue doing things this way.