How to Use a Debugger in PHP

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  • DataTables

    Example of uses for jQuery DataTables and PHP (by leeway-academy)

    In this section, you'll get to see two of the most typical usages of XDebug: debugging a web application and debugging a CLI application. For demonstration purposes, I'll be using the code located in this repository

  • xDebug

    Xdebug — Step Debugger and Debugging Aid for PHP

    XDebug

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  • web-pecl

    The PECL website

    If you don't have the opportunity to use a package manager, you can still install it easily via PECL:

  • Visual Studio Code

    Visual Studio Code

    Any IDE can probably be used to debug PHP with XDebug, but since it’s free and popular, I'll use VSCode as an example.

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