YII logging for debugging

Question

In many cases, Xdebug is not suitable for debugging as it involves clicks to run to a particular line of codes. I want to use something that is similar to cak

Answer 1

In Yii2

Yii::trace(VarDumper::dumpAsString($array));

An example of customized log class is given below.

Example:

 Log.e("Copying the Estimate data failed. Model::getError(): ", 
        $model->getErrors());