Submitted 1 year ago by Obscerno@lemm.ee to programming@programming.dev
I have no idea how I managed to program in PHP for years without Xdebug. Now when an error occurs, it just pops up in my IDE, and I can set breakpoints and see ALL of the local variables including the ones set in the higher up scripts. It makes debugging sooooo much easier.
I feel kind of silly for not assuming a tool like this existed and hunting for it. I’ll never write a var_debug() again. I wonder what other absolutely vital tools are out there that I’m just completely oblivious to.
Lol, I have my favorite file_put_contents line for debugging php, but being able to step through code would be great. What’s your setup? Last time I tried I couldn’t get xdebug working on win server + apache.
I’m on Ubuntu, but from what I remember to get it working in my local environment I just:
[xdebug] zend_extension=xdebug xdebug.mode = debug xdebug.start_with_request = yes
And now I just hit F5 and select “Listen for Xdebug” and I’m ready to go.
You just saved thousands of php developers’ lives
dotslashme@infosec.pub 1 year ago
Just wait until you learn that you can debug sql queries the same way in most rdbms admin tools.
Obscerno@lemm.ee 1 year ago
WHAT?
TheCee@programming.dev 1 year ago
Just wait until you learn that debuggers for XSLT exists. Wait, that’s no reason to smile.