Hello to all, this is my first posting on WP, and I've looked for this all over the place, but I still haven't found what I'm looking for. :-)
I am new to wordpress, but not developing. I took a five year break from it, between 2008 and 2013, due to job restrictions, but I'm back, and ready to go.
I code on Ubuntu 12.04lts, localhost >> LAMP. emacs is my favorite editor, but I am entirely flexible. OOP presents its own needs.
My current problem is that I need to develop a plugin that adds SKU regex'd pricing policy within woocommerce and the compatible theme responsive, from cyberchimps(sp?).
My trouble with this problem is that reading code does nothing but put me into a maze of twisty little includes, all alike.
Just to see, I tallied up an estimate of how many pages of code were involved with the post "hello world." and it was about 1500. Ouch!
How do I emphatically determine which hooks to use to include my own functions, and what the variable names are on which to operate?
I am not even sure of the source file that renders any given page.
Are there any debuggers, gnu's ddd for php5/wordpress? I sense a conspiracy against the ability to read and follow code....
Thanks in advance!
Also, any feedback on bluefish and/or eclipse and/or phpdbg?
David, Tampa, Florida.