Does Anyone Know Any Good Debugging Techniques.
Does anyone know any good debugging techniques. Especially for mysql
queries, and global variables. My php IDE's (Glimmer, and Bluefish)
supposedly have debugging functions but I cant figure out how they work.
So any help would be excellent.
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