I am currently debugging php code. One of the trouble is, I don't know how to print out the variable's value. Our code is constructed in Zend framework and IDE is phpstorm.
For example, for the following SQL query, how can I print out the actual sql sentence sending to database? Or, in another word, is there a way to print $query as a string to somewhere? Such as Chrome's console? Thanks for your advice.
$query = DB::table('ctre_contact AS contact')
->join('ctre_company AS company', 'company.id', '=', 'contact.company_id')
->select(
'contact.id',
'contact.first_name',
'contact.last_name',
'company.name AS company_name',
DB::raw("COALESCE(FIND_IN_SET(contact.id, '$program->client_admin'), 0) AS is_client_admin"),
DB::raw("COALESCE(FIND_IN_SET(contact.id, '$program->program_admin'), 0) AS is_program_admin"),
DB::raw("COALESCE(FIND_IN_SET(contact.id, '$program->user'), 0) AS is_user"),
DB::raw("COALESCE(FIND_IN_SET(contact.id, '$program->user_monitor_role'), 0) AS is_user_monitor")
);
if (!empty($where)) {
$query->whereRaw(join(" AND ", $where));
}