Chapter 10. Debugging and Optimizations

When push comes to shove, the simple fact is that most anyone can learn the syntax and grammar of a programming language well enough to write programs. However, as applications and projects become larger, understanding the code itself is not sufficient. There are many techniques that may be applied to reduce the bugs in your applications and to optimize the code for maximum performance. The purpose of this chapter is to provide the foundations of these principals for use within your own applications.

Debugging Your PHP Scripts

Tracking down and removing bugs in applications is a fact of life when writing computer programs, regardless of ...

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