Xdebug和用于notepad++的DBGp插件用于繁重的bug查找，FirePHP用于轻量级的东西。又快又脏?没有什么比dBug更好的了。

PhpEd真的很好。你可以进入/进入/退出函数。你可以运行特别代码，检查变量，改变变量。太神奇了。

我使用了Zend Studio(5.5)和Zend平台。这就提供了适当的调试、断点/跨代码等，尽管是有代价的。

如果您不想弄乱输出，输出缓冲是非常有用的。我在一行代码中做到了这一点，我可以随意注释/取消注释

 ob_start();var_dump(); user_error(ob_get_contents()); ob_get_clean();

通过简单地var_dump一些关键变量，可以很容易地找到大多数错误，但这显然取决于您开发的应用程序类型。

对于更复杂的算法，步进/断点/观察函数是非常有用的(如果没有必要)

For the really gritty problems that would be too time consuming to use print_r/echo to figure out I use my IDE's (PhpEd) debugging feature. Unlike other IDEs I've used, PhpEd requires pretty much no setup. the only reason I don't use it for any problems I encounter is that it's painfully slow. I'm not sure that slowness is specific to PhpEd or any php debugger. PhpEd is not free but I believe it uses one of the open-source debuggers (like XDebug previously mentioned) anyway. The benefit with PhpEd, again, is that it requires no setup which I have found really pretty tedious in the past.