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November 16th, 2015

034: Debugging is more than var_dump()

Believe it or not, there's a lot more to debugging your PHP code than var_dump()'ing all the things. We discuss how to use debugging tools to help us comprehensively debug our codebase.

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Debugging is more than var_dump() Show Summary


Debugging Attitudes

  • Developers sometimes assume that their code was written properly
  • Instead, you should verify that your code works

var_dump

  • var_dump() is still a valid way of debugging
  • [Xdebug](https://x

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Panelists

Derick Rethans


Colin O'Dell


Gary Hockin


Show Notes Credit

Thank you Peter Keller for authoring the show notes for this episode!

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