You're very vague what exactly you concerns are.

However, PHP's commandline binary featuers a -l switch which only performs syntax checking of the specified files.

Nice little functions for web text would go well...
   Would cut web work in half ( less syntax & errors).

   As most of the problems in PHP is syntax errors...  

   any chance of a stand-alone syntax checker that points
   right at the error... point... point... (the internal one stinks)

   or dump the page as text on the screen with highlights...
   would save us (1/2 hour search for error * 500)... 

   if PHP gang are listening...

   keep up the good work... Brian

Please be _more_ specific. You just copy&pasted the text you write in the first which won't get us any further!

Then I will be more specific.
PHP does not point specifically to a syntax error.
So consequently, 5 of us spend 1/2 an hour looking for it.
This costs money.

We've done enough to promote PHP...
& we can't be more specific than that.

Brian

By all love I can dedicate to what you wrote now, I am (and probably other who will read this) still not sure what your exact problem is!

What syntax error caused you man-hours of work to fix?

Really, think over again what you want to achieve. Be more specific, provide more detail and examples. Generally spoken, read through the bugs do's and don'ts again please.

We don't have a problem.
the category is Feature Request.
Therefore we requested a feature, not a problem

all the best

If you can't be more specific this bug will be a bogus.