Question

After a dozen years of using a simple shareware text editor to write PHP, I’m finally jumping into the world of IDEs like it’s 1999.

I’m playing around with debugging in NetBeans using XDebug. I see how I can set breakpoints or step through each line in the code and see what values are assigned to variables. Very cool!

However, I don’t see what happens to anything that’s been echoed or sent to the buffer.

Is there a way to see this, or does NetBeans assume that I’m assigning all of my strings to variables to be output at the end (which is how I usually do it anyway)?

Answer 1

You can use ob_start() to buffer your output, and then copy it to a variable using ob_get_contents().