Paul, Robert,
Thank you for replying and for your recomendations.
While looking into PHP debuggers, I've often come across mention of
simply using functions like var_dump() and print_r().
But unless I misunderstand the concept, one has to be always writing
these commands into the code, see what they do, and then take them out
again when you actually want the code to run as you intend it to be seen.
And I don't see how you can do things like watch variables or set break
points. Again, unless I don't see it, to watch a variable through many
steps of a script, you'd have to place a var_dump() at each juncture,
run the whole script, and pick through the output afterwards. If you
have arrays which many elements - $_SERVER usually has about 30 or more
- that could be quite a lot of text dumped to the screen.
While I can see that this approach would work, it also seems to me to
involve much more manual labour.
In the end, it may just be a personal thing. I'm much more of a graphics
guy who wants to do some more stuff with his web pages than a hard core
coder. I prefer a more GUI approach to development.
Zend didn't really wow me. It took weeks of back and forth with their
support to finally get it up to speed. I'll give them credit for having
very friendly and responsive support staff. But I would have much rather
not needed to use their support so much.
But I'd rather that then have to have to build my own set of error
handlers, which would themselves need constant tweaking, especially as
I'm a newbie.
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