Xdebug

Xdebug

Xdebug is an extension for PHP to assist with debugging and development by Derick Rethans.

  • It contains a single step debugger to use with IDEs
  • it upgrades PHP‘s var_dump() function
  • it adds Stack traces for Notices, Warnings, Errors and Exceptions
  • it features functionality for recording every function call and variable assignment to disk
  • it contains a profiler
  • it provides code coverage functionality for use with PHPUnit

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