Magento Debugging tips

Here are some Debugging tips which will help to debug magneto code.As some of the tools are also availiable which will help to debug the code easily 

There is one free extension availiable for the Debugging the code ,files,DB .....click on the following link 


1) If variable is object and of which class

<?php Zend_Debug::dump(get_class($this), 'get_class') ?>

2) If variable to see its content/value

<?php Zend_Debug::dump($this->debug(), 'debug') ?>

3) If read the value of object properties/attributes
For example we will use $_product

 <?php Zend_Debug::dump($_product->getData('attribute_name')) ?>

4) If Loop trough Magento collection object
(Check if something is a collection, if we can iterate trough it)

<?php if($var instanceof Varien_Data_Collection): ?>
    <ul>
    <?php foreach($var as $k => $v): ?>
        <li>Some value: <?php echo $v ?></li>
    <?php endforeach; ?>
    </ul>
<?php endif; ?>

5) If to get the files which are included in that page

print_r(get_included_files());

6) If to get the full list of methods available

get_class_methods

hope this will help you