PHP 3 includes support for a network-based debugger.
   
    PHP 4 does not have an internal debugging facility.
    You can use one of the external debuggers though. The
    Zend IDE includes
    a debugger, and there are also some free debugger extensions
    like DBG at http://dd.cron.ru/dbg/, the 
    Advanced PHP Debugger (APD) or
    Xdebug which even has a compatible
    debugger interface as PHP 3's debugging functionality as is described
    in this section.