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Looking for a debugging tool in PHP, any suggestions?

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Looking for a debugging tool in PHP, any suggestions?
posted Feb 23, 2016 by Salil Agrawal

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12 PHP Debugging Tools for Developers: such as
1. Kint
2. DebugBar
3. Pinba
4. PHPMD
5. Xde Bug
6. Whoops
7. Krumo
8. Php Debugger
9. Php Debug
10. Webgrind
11. PHP_Dyn
12. MacGDBp

For more info please check here -
12 PHP Debugging Tools!
8 more debugging tool info

answer Feb 23, 2016 by Manikandan J
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Best php debug tools are PINBA,PHP DYN,KINT,PHP MD,PHP Debug Bar,WHOOPS,XDEBUG,KRUMO but try XDEBUG because
If you have an IDE that supports remote debugging like NetBeans, Eclipse then you will be able to debug your code on a remote server that has the Xdebug extension enabled.

answer Feb 23, 2016 by Shivam Kumar Pandey
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