Re: PHP debugger

On 5/25/07, Jochem Maas <jochem@iamjochem.com> wrote:

Miles Thompson wrote: .... Suggestions will be most welcome. Also, I'm not married to this, so if anyone thinks there is a better debugger, please jump in. I'm not going to jump in there ... I almost drown in that quagmire everytime I have to get a debugger setup working ... but ... Regards - Miles Thompson PS Why are we doing this? Because we are getting tired of debugging with Javascript alert() boxes. /mt PPS And we are using those because of Joomla! Some things are buried so deeply we cannot use print() or echo(). /mt 2 things: 1. when you have no hair left whatsoever:

        var_dump($foo); exit;

2. error_log() is your friend .... tail the log and run the code. just a thought.

Hey Jochem, It's been a long slog, and I'm still playing with "test" programs to figure out how things work. It sure isn't like using a desktop debugger, especially as we are doing it all remotely. Thanks for your comments - Miles