Xdebug is a PHP debugging extension that allows you to follow the code execution flow of your application (while running on a server) through your IDE. It allows you to control the execution (e.g line-by-line or function by function), pause the execution at any point and examine which variables are defined and the values they…
Month: October 2017
PHP Reflection: real-life use cases
Reflection is one of these language features that most developer may have never used and may never use in their lifetime. And that’s fine! Reflection is there to handle some very specialized cases. It’s not there for fun. But I am sure that many of you may wonder how often this feature is being used…