Nick Halstead continues the "Programming Tips" series on his blog today with tip number nine (a very handy tip indeed) - using debug_backtrace from Larry Garfield.

Despite the proliferation of debugging tools, especially real-time debuggers, "debugging by print statement" remains the most common form of debugging in most programming languages.

An example of its use is included by way of a debug() function that returns the message it a bit friendlier format.