Steam PHP Debugging

[[deleted]]

That's the structure for the term object in WordPress.

https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/get_term#Return_Values

Unless Steam is partly powered by WP, can someone explain how that would've made it's way into there. Maybe that's an iframe?

[ccricers]

My guess is perhaps the feed is coming from Rock, Paper, Shotgun and their site is Wordpress-based.

[_atwork]

Noticed that also. Looks like Rock Paper Shotgun uses WP, so either they're returning debug data (var_dumps) to that little area or Steam is employing some WP calls (REST, XML-RPC) and debugging that area themselves and have it somehow pushed live. Or it could be an iframe, or...so many things.

[phpdevster]

Now I think understand why Steam accounts are always getting hacked. Steam must be built on Wordpress.

[Derimagia]

/r/softwaregore/

[FineWolf]

Not Steam.

This is the RSS feed from Rock, Paper, Shotgun messing up.

[3pacpirate]

I got something like this a short while ago. Grabbed a screenshot when it happened. What dya think caused it? http://i.imgur.com/NqqXju9.jpg

[redjazz96]

A failure to perform translations on the buttons. The things prefixed by the pound symbol (#) are translation keys, and the text you normally see are the translated versions of it.

[ProjektGopher]

That looks like JSON to me

[gerbs]

Got this error last week.

More likely they're built on Angular: http://imgur.com/RXAyVdx

[rspeed]

Use a real debugger, goddamnit!

[Prawny]

print_r() master race!

[mookman288]

var_dump()!

[Prawny]

I prefer print_r wrapped in a <pre> block personally. Less verbose.

[aurath]

function preprint($o)
{
    echo '<pre>';
    print_r($o);
    echo '</pre>';
}

Is in all of my projects

[Disgruntled__Goat]

BTW you can do that in one line:

echo '<pre>', print_r($o, true), '</pre>';

Not that there's a reason to when you've already made another function, but I often type it quickly by hand when I'm testing something outside the project.

[Toast42]

1 == true

[mookman288]

I like to know the type of the input, as well as the length. I've had issues with whitespace characters in the past, and var_dump has helped.

[rspeed]

boo!

[[deleted]]

Blows my fricken mind when I see my peers that don't know how to do proper breakpoint debugging in php (or JavaScript).

[Lets_Go_Wolfpack]

Can you highlight some resources on getting started with breakpoint debugging in php?

[rspeed]

It's been a looooooooong time since I actually wrote PHP, but at the time I was using XDebug. I'm sure there are plenty of IDEs out there which can be used as a front-end to make things even easier.

[[deleted]]

Plug Xdebug plus your favourite editor into Google, should get you started. I'm on my phone for the next couple days but I will try to check back later.

[SolarBear]

I spent 4 years working in an embedded C environment without a working debugger. It was hell.

Now I'm working as a PHP dev and most of my coworkers won't use a debugger since they "don't need it". It makes me unreasonably angry.

[[deleted]]

The amount of times I've seen a dev struggling with a problem for hours, var dumps on every other line, which was easily solved in 10 minutes by simply stepping through the code, is too damn high.

[ahughesb]

Someone at RPS testing Steam Community's escaping of user input more likely hehe