An ancient proverb says "a developer should not develop without a good debugger."

OK, maybe nobody said that, but the maxim holds true. If you're writing PHP code in Drupal and, like me, lack the ability to keep track of tens of thousands of lines of code in your head, then your ability to debug code will be key to your success.

This session will address installing, setting up and using a step-through-debugger (XDebug with an IDE) in Drupal, and will discuss setting breakpoints and then following code as it jumps between multiple files in a typical page load.

We will also discuss other helpful debugging tools and techniques such as the Devel module, Watchdog, and viewing log files.