PHP Debug External API data Query in WordPress

Welcome to our tutorial on debugging PHP code in WordPress! In this video, we'll be using PHP var_dump and error_log to understand the data we've queried from an external API in WordPress.

This video builds on our previous tutorial, "Display Queried External API data on the WordPress Front-end using Shortcodes," via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-P183PvRIQ which can be found at the link provided in the description. We'll be continuing to work with external API data, but this time we'll focus on understanding how data is uniquely handled in WordPress when it comes to objects and arrays.

By the end of this tutorial, you'll have a better understanding of how to debug your PHP code in WordPress and how to work with objects and arrays in your API queries.

Thanks for watching!

Starter Code sample: https://github.com/YTTechiePress/external-data-api-shortcode

VIDEO CHAPTERS
00:00 Intro
00:23 Starter video
00:35 Determining queried data
01:07 Var_dump() method
03:00 Using pre tags
03:25 Working objects & arrays
04:30 WordPress core PHP API
06:20 WordPress core Version API
08:50 Handle Non-visual data display
09:30 Using error_log() & print_r()
10:40 WordPress debug.log file
12:30 Conclusion

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