[SOLVED] Are there any debugging programs for PHP? How do you debug PHP code?

#1 (**permalink**) 06-10-2007, 04:11 PM

I have used other programming languages such as C, C++ where you can debug the code using the IDE however how is this possible with PHP? I would like to step through the program and see at run time what values are being assigned.
Can any of these be used with Dreamweaver 8?

TeraTask · #2 (**permalink**) 06-11-2007, 11:31 PM

Hmmm...I'm not aware of a free program. I think some of the Zend products may give you such power. For my own PHP programming I just check for what I need when I need it and generally echo it out to the screen. To make sure that I've gotten to a particular point in the program, I'll use

PHP Code:

  echo __file__.":".__line__.") Got here<br />";

And, to check the value of variables at a certain point, I use something like

PHP Code:

  echo "<u>".__file__.":".__line__."</u><pre>".print_r($some_variable,true)."</pre><br />";

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