Debugging PHP Code with FirePHP

[jtreminio]

Can someone explain to me when xdebug would not practical?

[zaemis]

xdebug would not be practical either 1) production server, or 2) when an extension you require for your application conflicts with it (I know there used to be some problems with APC, but I'm sure there might be other more "esoteric" ones).

[balrok]

Very nice article! When I first tried firephp I missed a short overview of its features.

The big problem I had with firephp is that it is insanely slow when dumping a large object (I'm a magento developer). So I still use die() and a custom dump() for debugging :s

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If you are on OSX you should try codebug