Re: PHP debugger recommendations, anyone?

On Feb 9, 2008 3:02 PM, Nathan Rixham <nrixham@gmail.com> wrote: > It suddenly dawned on me that you are doing an echo for every paremeter, > a debugger will never completely alleviate the need for this, however > try using: > print_r(get_defined_vars()); > instead, that way you get everything output that you could need, it's > often also worth putting an exit(); after prining out so you can see > where the script is failing; if indeed it is. > get_defined_vars() can be a real hassle to sift through, mainly because it spits out a bunch of data you dont usually want to see. if you want to see the values of a given functions parameters w/o an echo statement for each on the best way is to use, func_get_args(); eg. die(var_dump(func_get_args())); also, xdebug has something called function traces; which you dont need to configure a client for. it will simply log all function calls to a file and its configurable, so you can have it log the values of actual parameters if you like. and it also ships w/ a special highlighter for vim, which is quite nice. http://xdebug.org/docs/execution_trace -nathan