XDebug对于开发至关重要。我安装它之前任何其他扩展。它为您提供任何错误的堆栈跟踪，您可以轻松地启用分析。

使用var_dump()可以快速查看数据结构。不要使用print_r()，因为你必须用<pre>包围它，而且它一次只打印一个var。

<?php var_dump(__FILE__, __LINE__, $_REQUEST); ?>

对于一个真正的调试环境，我发现最好的是Komodo IDE，但它要花费$$。

Nusphere也是一个很好的php调试器 nusphere

Komodo IDE works well with xdebug, even for the remore debugging. It needs minimum amount of configuration. All you need is a version of php that Komodo can use locally to step through the code on a breakpoint. If you have the script imported into komodo project, then you can set breakpoints with a mouse-click just how you would set it inside eclipse for debugging a java program. Remote debugging is obviously more tricky to get it to work correctly ( you might have to map the remote url with a php script in your workspace ) than a local debugging setup which is pretty easy to configure if you are on a MAC or a linux desktop.

由Derick Rethans编写的Xdebug非常好。我前段时间用过，发现安装起来不那么容易。一旦你完成了，你就不会明白没有它你是如何做到的:-)

在Zend开发者专区有一篇很好的文章(在Linux上安装似乎并不容易)，甚至还有一个Firefox插件，我从来没用过。

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.

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)