Advanced debugging of Drupal core using the command line (strace & tcpdump)
Basics
Debugging of Drupal was never easy, until you know the right tools and how to use them.
There are plenty of alternative debugging methods using some popular PHP libraries XDebug, XHProf, NuSphere PhpED, etc. and also most of the IDE have already built-in step-by-step debugger.
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