Debugging - Past, Present and Future

Debugging - Past, Present and Future

Explore the evolution of debugging techniques in PHP during this 53-minute conference talk from the PHP UK Conference. Dive into PHP's standard debugging features, userland libraries, and framework functionalities. Discover live-action debuggers like Xdebug and Zend's debugger, and learn how they work with IDEs to provide real-time information during script execution. Get a glimpse of the future with PHP 5.6's phpdbg for debugging and analysis. Uncover an innovative project that allows "stepping back" while debugging, introspecting exact execution paths, and tracing variable modifications in your scripts and applications.