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phpixie/debug
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Debugging library for PHPixie with support for logging and tracing

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Debug
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PHPixie Debug was created to improve PHP development in any environment. Of course if you are already using a web framework debugging tools are already provided, but when developing a library, solving a programming puzzle or even using WordPress the lack of a debugging toolset is hindering. Even basic functionality like convertieng errors to exceptions requires registering a special handler. PHPixie Debug can bootstrap you with a convenient environment in just two lines of code.

**Exceptions and tracing**

The Debug library tries to achieve the same level of usage ina console environment as we already have in web applications. When writing libraries for PHPixie I often wanted to have exception traces that would include the part of code that the exception happened in. Another problem with traces in php is that calling *print\_r(debug\_backtrace())* directly can quickly result in a wall of text if any argument in the backtrace was an object with some dependencies. Using *debug\_print\_backtrace()* gives a better result, but still prints all array members and requires output buffering to assign the result to a variable. Let’s take a look at the PHPixie trace:

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