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Debugging PHP MVC framework

Hi,

I just taken over a PHP project but the codes are in MVC. I have a middle level PHP skill.
Any suggestion to debug the codes for MVC ?
I tried the debug_print_backtrace , print_r and var_dump but it doesn't seems helping to trace which files related to which files.

Loganathan Natarajan

do you know exactly which framework is used? so it will be easy to use the framework debug methods. What are you trying to debug exactly? Please provide more details.

Vel Eous

If you can get a copy of the code base installed on a local/development environment, then you can make use of Xdebug in conjunction with a decent IDE (Atom, VSCode, PHPStorm) to add breakpoints within your code to perform some debugging.

Alternatively, if you simply want to dump output then most modern frameworks provide some sort of error logging facilities out of the box (Laravel Error Logging). Review the documentation for your framework to see what, if anything, is already available to you.

Enrique Tang

ASKER

Thanks for the reply Vel, I done some googling for the XDebug, but the documentation is bit deep for me.
Does it require server knowledge ?
Do you have any good link to XDebug for beginner ?

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