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I often find myself looking at PHP questions on stackoverflow.com where the answer is simply for the OP to do some basic debugging.

eg.

  1. Put in trace statements
  2. Seperate out Variable from expressions.
  3. remove @ to see what the real error is.

To me these are basic debugging techniques I learnt in college and in 10 years of development. I know there are some good programming books that deal with these basics, but are there any good online resources that I could point people to?

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Remove @? If you are talking about PHP's error operator, it shouldn't be there in the first place! – Alex Jan 19 at 17:02

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