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Re:Ask HN: How do you familiarize yourself with a new codebase? by shogun21 on Friday June 26, 2015 @09:45AM (#9784258)
What debugger do you use for PHP? I've yet to find one I really like.
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Re:Ask HN: How do you familiarize yourself with a new codebase? by spdionis on Friday June 26, 2015 @10:33AM (#9784609)
Xdebug is de facto the only debugger AFAIK. The integration in Phpstorm is great.
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Re:Ask HN: How do you familiarize yourself with a new codebase? by kieranajp on Friday June 26, 2015 @11:13AM (#9785027)
http://codebugapp.com is a fantastic front-end for Xdebug. I get a lot of mileage out of this, not least because I only had to set it up once and now it works with whichever editor I'm trying out this week.
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Re:Ask HN: How do you familiarize yourself with a new codebase? by monk_e_boy on Friday June 26, 2015 @01:33PM (#9786378)
NuSphere is better than xdebug. It allows more actions and is generally better.

But I use xdebug and phpstorm. I find it better than netbeans. Search in netbeans is good, but the whole thing has a weird GUI and is slow.

Best bet is to try a bunch.

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Re:Ask HN: How do you familiarize yourself with a new codebase? by noir_lord on Friday June 26, 2015 @02:55PM (#9786948)
Xdebug and with phpstorm 9 you have inline display of the values held in that variable which you can expand with a click.

That is incredibly powerful (PyCharm has it as well).

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Re:Ask HN: How do you familiarize yourself with a new codebase? by jh3 on Friday June 26, 2015 @10:32AM (#9784596)
xdebug and phpstorm is great.
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Re:Ask HN: How do you familiarize yourself with a new codebase? by __oz on Friday June 26, 2015 @01:19PM (#9786255)
Xdebug and Netbeans, tons of tutorials on how to set it up on google/youtube.
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Re:Ask HN: How do you familiarize yourself with a new codebase? by cstuder on Friday June 26, 2015 @10:10AM (#9784444)
xdebug and Eclipse is good enough.

Configuration got a lot easier since the installation wizard has been introduced: http://xdebug.org/wizard.php

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Re:Ask HN: How do you familiarize yourself with a new codebase? by girvo on Friday June 26, 2015 @07:21PM (#9788307)
Codebug. Phenomenal Xdebug client.
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