Every coder's had it happen, probably more times than they can count. It's embarassing to have it happen in front of everyone, and especially bad if the world knows about it. What is it? Bugs in your software - those evil, hidden issues that make you have to work that much harder. Well, this new O'Reilly article seeks to help the process along a bit.

In PHP Debugging Basics, the author starts off with the configuration of PHP's error reporting (as well as the different types of errors). From there, there are samples of some parse errors that one might come across. He ties it all up with a section on program data inspection (checking to ensure variables hold the values you think they do, etc) and a few places to look for something a bit more advanced (such as XDebug or apd).