| Re: Can anyone recommend a good debugger & IDE for PHP? [message #170059 is a reply to message #170057] |
Fri, 08 October 2010 11:01   |
Jerry Stuckle
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On 10/8/2010 3:49 AM, Tim Streater wrote:
> In article <i8lmfm$bn7$1(at)news(dot)eternal-september(dot)org>,
> Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex(at)attglobal(dot)net> wrote:
>
>> On 10/7/2010 5:15 PM, Marious Barrier wrote:
>>> On 10/07/2010 04:56 PM, Jerry Stuckle wrote:
>>>> On 10/7/2010 2:35 PM, Marious Barrier wrote:
>>>> > On 10/07/2010 02:15 PM, Jerry Stuckle wrote:
>>>> >> On 10/7/2010 11:58 AM, Marious Barrier wrote:
>>>> >>> On 09/26/2010 09:46 AM, Jerry Stuckle wrote:
>>>> >>>> On 9/25/2010 5:06 PM, Marious Barrier wrote:
>>>> >>>>> On 09/22/2010 06:09 PM, Michael wrote:
>>>> >>>>>> Looking for the equivalent of MS Visual Studio for PHP. Thanks.
>>>> >>>>>
>>>> >>>>> tail -f apache-error-log
>>>> >>>>> and you will see everything you need to know to debug your
>> scripts.
>>>> >>>>
>>>> >>>> Not likely.
>>>> >>>
>>>> >>> For a newbie, absolutely not.
>>>> >>>
>>>> >>
>>>> >> First, it assumes the op is running Apache. Many are not.
>>>> >>
>>>> >> Second, it assumes PHP errors are being written to the Apache error
>>>> >> log.
>>>> >> A sysadmin who knows his stuff will not mix application and server
>>>> >> errors in the same log.
>>>> >>
>>>> >> Third, it assumes the user has access to the apache error log.
>> This is
>>>> >> not true on the vast majority of hosts, for security reasons.
>>>> >>
>>>> >> Fourth, it assumes the PHP error messages will tell the user
>> everything
>>>> >> they need to know. This is not the case - as is evinced by a lot of
>>>> >> messages in this newsgroup asking what a particular error message
>>>> >> means.
>>>> >>
>>>> >> Only a newbie would make such a claim.
>>>> >
>>>> > In which moment did we talk about a free host trolly? Sorry if my
>>>> > comment hurt you.
>>>>
>>>> No place. But it applies to virtually every shared host out there.
>>>
>>> That is a different matter, I assume almost all here are professionals
>>> working in their own servers.
>>>
>>> Or at least developing in their own box?
>>
>> Not necessarily on their own box, not necessarily on Apache and not
>> necessarily on Linux.
>>
>> In fact, I would bet the vast majority of the group is NOT developing
>> on Linux, for instance.
>>
>> But even if that is the case - if they are professionals, they will
>> NOT have their PHP errors mixed in with the web server error log.
>>
>> But a real professional would understand that. A troll would not.
>
> Mmmm, where would the errors be reported then?
>
> I'm using JavasScript-ajax-apache-php all within one machine. For me,
> it's quite handy that PHP notices from the backend scripts go into the
> server log, rather than getting mixed in with the ajax responses. This
> is OS X 10.6.4.
>
To the PHP error log - where ever the sysadmin specifies in the php.ini
file.
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