Debugging techniques for PHP programmers

Table of contents

• Introduction
• Setting up
• Error messages
• Introducing print statements
• Using PHPeclipse
• Using the debugger
• Summary
• Download
• Resources
• About the author

Debugging techniques for PHP programmers

Using print statements, error reporting, and the PHPeclipse plug-in

Tyler Anderson (tyleranderson5@yahoo.com), Freelance writer

Tyler Anderson recieved both his B.S. in Computer Science in 2004 and his M.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering in 2005 from Brigham Young University. Tyler has written and coded numerous articles and tutorials for IBM developerWorks and DevX.

Summary:  Explore various methods for debugging PHP applications, including turning on error reporting in Apache and PHP, and by placing strategic print statements to locate the source of more difficult bugs through a simple example PHP script. The PHPeclipse plug-in for Eclipse, a slick development environment with real-time syntax parsing abilities, will also be covered, as well as the DBG debugger extension for PHPeclipse.

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Date:  29 Nov 2005
Level:  Introductory
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