I have been writting PHP forever in a text editor and just recently wondered if there are any easy to understand debuggers out there. Because of PHP's very lenient compilation constrains, I usually end up with variables that are never used and the worst is when I misname variables only to figure out 30 minutes later that there is nothing wrong with my query string or form, it is that I am using a different variable name to extract the data.
I looked today to see if there were any and I came up with two. One was Eclipse with a PHP addon and the other was a program called PHP ED which was pretty expensive. I downloaded the trial of PHP Ed and have yet to touch it. I tried to figure out how Eclipse even worked and I had zero luck.
Does anyone use a PHP debugger/IDE? Most of my errors are solely because of incorrect variable names or the wrong parameters. If I could actually find a desent IDE with a debugger, it would save me a ton of time.
I looked today to see if there were any and I came up with two. One was Eclipse with a PHP addon and the other was a program called PHP ED which was pretty expensive. I downloaded the trial of PHP Ed and have yet to touch it. I tried to figure out how Eclipse even worked and I had zero luck.
Does anyone use a PHP debugger/IDE? Most of my errors are solely because of incorrect variable names or the wrong parameters. If I could actually find a desent IDE with a debugger, it would save me a ton of time.