034: Debugging is more than var_dump()

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034: Debugging is more than var_dump()

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Nov 16, 2015

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Believe it or not, there's a lot more to debugging your PHP code than var_dump()'ing all the things. We discuss how to use debugging tools to help us comprehensively debug our codebase.

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Nov 16, 2015

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034: Debugging is more than var_dump()

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