When I returned to PHP development after a couple of years working with .NET, one of the things I found most frustrating was losing the excellent debugger incorporated into Visual Studio. From having breakpoints, watches and interactive consoles, I was reduced back to print statements and log files. That wasn’t fun, so I set out to find a better way.
Fortunately, as is almost always the case with these things, clever people have worked hard to come up with better ways and all I had to do was use what they’ve created. I used three tools to achieve something approaching the debugging power of Visual Studio: (more…)
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