Re: PHP newbie: I love it, but...

I have never used a debugger myself, while programming in any language. but what I can suggest is turn up error reporting to the fullest, just put this line at the start of your script: error_reporting (E_ALL); checkout php.net for info on this function. "Jean" <jean@dpc.com> wrote in message news:20030508062540.74511.qmail@pb1.pair.com... > PHP is a very nice language. Been about a week reading O'Reilly & writing > my first program. Making some fast progress. But, as I embellish my > program, I am beginning to run into trouble. I am finding PHP to be > extremely difficult to debug. There's a limit to embedding echo to check > the program flow. Then, there are times when the browser shows absolutely > nothing. Browser's Show Source Code lists next to nothing; I assume this is > because the interpreter hung on a missing brace or something and outputted > nothing! Until I become good at spotting my errors, I've got to find a > debugging tool. Any words of wisdom would be appreciated. > > Jean > >