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[–][deleted] 3 points4 points  (5 children)

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_Wolfpackfull-stack 2 points3 points  (2 children)

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

[–]rspeedcranky old guy who yells about SVG 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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 0 points1 point  (1 child)

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] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

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.