ray VS php-console-extension

Similar but not free: https://myray.app

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I hope installing spatie/global-ray (and Ray itself) will be a more pleasant experience.

I'm proud to announce the initial release of the spatie/x-ray package for Ray. The x-ray package provides a command-line utility that finds and displays all calls to ray(), rd(), and other functions from the spatie/ray family of packages. Currently, it only supports PHP projects.

Seems to me you just may have stumbled on a not-ideal PHP gig. The entire Laravel ecosystem is pretty awesome, there are a lot better tools for debugging than xdebug (https://myray.app/), and honestly, the amount of horrific spaghetti JS I've had to navigate is in multiple times worse, and in bigger amounts than any PHP related spaghetti I've had to deal with. But I do agree that for a newcomer it's hard to find good PHP products and tools since the information is so saturated on the internet, the only way you really find good quality things is by following the top guys on Twitter or so.

I am the same, it's the most easy. Very interesting is that in the laravel php world currently an interesting product is gaining momentum: Ray (https://myray.app/)

So basically it's dump with a lot of neat extras and instead of looking at the console of the script, or the website you are printing on you push this to a little desktop application, from every of your languages you are using. Something like log collection for everything on your desktop.

I'm always using WP PHP Console. Besides this plugin you'll also need to install the PHP Console Chrome Extension (it's not on the store you'll need to do it manually – Just zip the stuff from the github link and install upload that zip to you chrome extensions)