PHP can be trickier to debug and troubleshoot than JavaScript, because you can’t use the browser console in the same way.

Tips:

• Use echo to show variable values in your page
• Use var_dump() to display contents of arrays and objects. This works for things that can’t be displayed with the echo command.
• Turn on more error reporting
• Print the type of an object to see if it’s the correct type: use the gettype() function and echo the result.