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use echo or Die for debugging and logging

The questions says everything. I am logging something on STDOUT.Should I use echo for displaying or Die().As far as I know If I use die() for normal printing like die('Entered in For loop'), it exits the program. Also is it good to log to files or mysql?

Solution

  • For debugging I prefer var_dump(). If you install Xdebug (http://xdebug.org/) in your development environment, you'll get a lot more out of var_dump.

    When I want to kill a script I'm debugging, I wrap die around that, as in die(var_dump()).

    For logging, look into PHP's error_log() (http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.error-log.php) function or a logging library such as monolog (https://github.com/Seldaek/monolog).