February 25-27, 2026
Montreal, Canada
Saving Time by Using a Debugger
In this talk I explain how to use Xdebug to get more productive writing PHP code, focussing on the improvements in Xdebug 3.5 such as Native Path Mapping, 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. I will also focus on the new features.
Beyond that, this session also goes through a few complicated scenarios that are harder to debug, and shows solutions to these conundrums. I will also focus on the new features.
Derick Rethans
Derick Rethans is a PHP internals expert and author of Xdebug. He works as an independent contractor and consultant on PHP extensions, the PHP language, and related projects.
He works for the PHP Foundation to improve PHP, and continues to contribute to the PHP project in numerous forms. He is a frequent lecturer at conferences, the author of php|architect's Guide to Date and Time Programming, and the co-author of PHP 5 Power Programming.
