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by krick 2382 days ago
What do you mean "there still isn't a better way"?! There are plenty debugging tools, many with integrated support in most IDEs. But, honestly, the only time I needed them was to figure out the place for performance optimization, var_dump() + die() are really perfect to debug anything. In fact, I feel that the nature of PHP being "fresh start on every call" + no compilation needed makes it probably the easiest to debug language out there I know.