Question

I just installed WAMP on Windows XP. I have a simple PHP file that is crashing. I ran it from command line using php test.php.

What is the best way to debug php files? How do I display debugging info?

I looked at php.ini and it includes display_errors = On. Does this do anything?

I tried turning on XDebug from the PHP WAMP menu. This doesn’t seem to do anything, besides restarting the server. Do I need to use this? How?

Thanks.

Answer 1

You can look at the log at c:/wamp/logs/php_error.log. If you are not sure whether your PHP log is being redirected here, check your php.ini file and search for a line like this:

;error_log = "c:/wamp/logs/php_error.log"

You may want to remove the comment on this line.