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PHP Integrating PHP with Databases Limiting Records in SQL Adding Pagination Links

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PHP Debugging in Chrome

Hello, is there a way to debug php code running on a local server in google chrome. What i found so far looks dubious...

Thanks

Richard Hall
Richard Hall
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Richard Hall
Richard Hall
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Let me know if I can be of any more help or explain something in more detail. My responses were a bit brief.

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Richard Hall
Richard Hall
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Richard Hall
Richard Hall
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Have you tried echoing or print_r (depends on what you're trying to output)?

Unsubscribed User
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mmmh no... i just fire the code and if there's an error i usually look in the console tab in chrome, that seems not to be working with php....

Richard Hall
Richard Hall
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Richard Hall
Richard Hall
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Right, but unless you're doing something with javascript, such as $_GET or $_POST to retrieve data from the PHP, you won't see it in the console.

PHP will output in the HTML of the inspect.

Unsubscribed User
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Unsubscribed User
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seems to access php error messages in chrome is not possible, i found this very helpfull workshop on treehouse: https://teamtreehouse.com/library/basic-error-handling-in-php

thanks

Richard Hall
Richard Hall
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Richard Hall
Richard Hall
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If you could post your code I could help a bit more directly. Without seeing it, the only thing I can think of off hand is try to echo or print the variables that aren't doing what you want them to do, then inspect element to find where it is displayed and see if the output is what you're expecting.

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ah ok i see what you mean no no i am looking for a way to inspect elements in chrome and check what went wrong with the php code, like with javascript under the console tab....

Steve Seebart
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Steve Seebart
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It sounds to me like you need to get into your php.ini file and enable error reporting. (There's a good guide in the file itself to help you along.) With default settings, the browser will only report that the page is not working. With error reporting on, you'll get detailed error messages pointing to the page and line number where the error occurs.