Question about usual debugging techniques for MyBB development

[hansolo]

Hi All,

At the moment I'm working on a complicated plugin. Basically, whenever anything goes wrong in the PHP code I'm completely blind, and this makes it nigh on impossible to solve the problem.

How can I see what is going on in the code? I've tried the recommended <script>console.log... method but this just causes an encoding error. Also FireBug allows some level of debuggability for JavaScript code files, but doesn't cover the highly nested PHP plugin files. I also found the NetBeans 'debug' feature didn't work right and was just useless.

So how do the developers here 'get eyes into the execution of the code', and debug this stuff?

Cheers!