This is the first article in a series about new features in Xdebug 2.2. Besides support for PHP 5.4, there are a few that might be of interest. Xdebug has overloaded var_dump() with xdebug_var_dump() for a long time and the overloaded function could be configured with a few configuration settings. There is xdebug.var_display_max_data to configure how much of a string should be shown; xdebug.var_di