Debugging Drupal with Devel, XDEBUG, Error Logs, & More

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Have you ever had a bug with your Drupal code? Have you been frustrated while adding lots of die() and print_r() commands to your code? Would you like to learn from folks who debug websites all day how to do it a bit better?

Come join John Ouellet (Sr Developer & Support Manager at Kalamuna) and David Newton (Senior Support Engineer at Pantheon) to learn how to better debug your Drupal sites! Use modules such as devel.module like a professional.  Use Xdebug with Sublime to learn exactly how your code executes and where the error occurs. Figure out how to print debugging information to logs in an useful and solution focused way. Make sense of the many log files generated by Drupal and your web hosting environment. Learn
how to apply best practice debugging techniques to both Drupal 7 and Drupal 8!

Drupal is hard enough even for experienced PHP programers. Don’t bang your head trying to figure out the problem. All hope is not lost! Learn the best practices, level up your toolkit, and become proficient with Drupal code debugging techniques.

Session Track

Coding and Development

Experience Level

Beginner

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