| Re: Can anyone recommend a good debugger & IDE for PHP? [message #170054 is a reply to message #170053] |
Thu, 07 October 2010 20:56   |
Jerry Stuckle
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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.
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>> First, it assumes the op is running Apache. Many are not.
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>> 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.
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>> 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.
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>> 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.
But then trolls don't understand that, do they?
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