February 22-24, 2023
Montreal, Canada

Getting the most out of Xdebug 3

In this talk I explain how to use Xdebug to get more productive writing PHP code, focussing on the improvements in Xdebug 3.1 and 3.2, to make the debugging experience better and easier to set-up.

Beyond that, this session also goes through a few complicated scenarios that are harder to debug, and shows solutions to these conundrums.

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Derick Rethans

Derick Rethans is a PHP internals expert and author of Xdebug. He works as an independent contractor with the PHP Foundation to improve PHP, by contributing to the project in numerous forms, such as the Date/Time Extension, Xdebug, and managing its server set-up.

In his spare time, he likes to watch birds, hike, and photography.

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