You are using a proper IDE with XDebug or Zend Debugger installed, right? I don't mean this in a snarky way at all. If you're not, and you work with some of t

You are using a proper IDE with XDebug or Zend Debugger installed, right? I don't mean this in a snarky way at all. If you're not, and you work with some of the more complex frameworks like Laravel, do yourself a favour and investigate XDebug, and an IDE like PhpStorm that can take advantage of it. It will change your workflow for the better. The first thing I do with any new framework (which I did with Laravel a few weeks back) is set up a really simple Hello World app and then step through a request loop, start to finish, to get a feel for how the framework sets up a request, dispatches it, and then tears down.. Just from that first exercise, I am immediately more productive with the new codebase..