Debugging Article for PHPWomen.org

I recently wrote an article on degbugging for the Best Practices thread on phpwomen.org – pop over and check it out :)

3 thoughts on “Debugging Article for PHPWomen.org”

Geoff Swift on October 25, 2007 at 19:37 said:

I find good error handling and log files are the best starting point.

As I use ob_gzhandler() a lot of echo/var_dump() stuff gets lost and results in a blank page (as the compressed content becomes invalid). Here’s a minimal example to hack away at:

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- Geoff Swift on October 25, 2007 at 19:39 said:
  
  ob_start(‘ob_gzhandler’);
  echo ‘Hello, world.’;
  ob_end_clean();
  echo ‘Some debug info’;
  
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LornaJane on October 27, 2007 at 22:28 said:

Hey Geoff! Logging is certainly a very useful technique – I build it in to my apps, but when you inherit something sometimes its the apache logs or nothing :)

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