Question

I’ve been working on an Android app where server side is running PHP.
Currently I’m doing all my debugging with traces.

Any recommendations for better debug methods?

Thanks.

Answer 1

If you’re looking for a real debugger, you can use xdebug. It supports remote debugging too.

But, simple print statements that write to a file can take you pretty far in php. Espescially with the awesomeness that is the print_r() and var_dump() functions.

You can also capture a chunk of output for logging via

ob_start();
///output stuff here
$output = ob_get_clean();
//log $output

Of, course, turn up error_reporting to E_ALL and set a value for error_log after turning on log_errors