Tracking echo output with Xdebug (in NetBeans)

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After a dozen years of using a simple shareware text editor to write PHP, I'm finally jumping into the world of IDEs like it's 1999.

I'm playing around with debugging in NetBeans using XDebug. I see how I can set breakpoints or step through each line in the code and see what values are assigned to variables. Very cool!

However, I don't see what happens to anything that's been echoed or sent to the buffer.

Is there a way to see this, or does NetBeans assume that I'm assigning all of my strings to variables to be output at the end (which is how I usually do it anyway)?

Madara's Ghost · Accepted Answer · 2012-08-26 17:53:46Z

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You can use ob_start() to buffer your output, and then copy it to a variable using ob_get_contents().

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ejaenv · Accepted Answer · 2013-12-08 07:02:38Z

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you can also use the IDE and add the ob_get_contents() expression

answered Dec 8, 2013 at 7:02

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