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I think he infers that both are bad practice, but for the record I don't think there's anything wrong with var_dump debugging. Sure, a real interactive debugger

I think he infers that both are bad practice, but for the record I don't think there's anything wrong with var_dump debugging. Sure, a real interactive debugger is nicer, but it can be a pain to set up with PHP (I know, having set these up several times). Print-based debugging is fine as long as you don't expose sensitive information to end users.

girvo 12y ago
Difficult to set up? I disagree, Xdebug with connectback is amazingly easy to set up in a Linux VM! On windows, yes, it's hard, but Linux and OS X its very simple nowadays. I should write blog post on how to do it (having done it dozens of times over the past 6 months)