Posted by Jochem Maas on 01/14/05 19:47

Greg Donald wrote:
> On Thu, 13 Jan 2005 22:11:05 +0000, Justin <ilug@maccarthy.org> wrote:
>
>>Is there a Debugger for PHP?
>
>
> php -l filename.php for basic syntax check.
>
> If you need more than that you can turn of full error reporting and
> view the errors directly on the screen:
>
> error_reporting( E_ALL );
> ini_set( 'display_errors', 1 );
>
> But later when you go to a production environment I'd go with:
>
> error_reporting( E_ERROR | E_WARNING | E_PARSE );
> ini_set( 'display_errors', 0 );
> ini_set( 'log_errors', 1 );
>
>

in addition there is the xdebug extension by Derick Rethans its at
version 2 but I might suggest starting with 1.3 as its alot simpler to
use than 2 (then again if you have experience of things like
valgrind/dbg on linux you should have little problems).

obviously you need to be able to compile the extension on/for you server
(or have someone do it for you) which may not be possible for you (e.g.
because its sharedhosting)

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