Re: Recommendations for PHP debuggers?

Check out PHPEdit from http://www.waterproof.fr/products/PHPEdit/ It has an integrated debugger and is a lot cheaper than Zend Studio Pro. -- Tony Marston http://www.tonymarston.net http://www.radicore.org "Dave M G" <martin@autotelic.com> wrote in message news:44E92E9C.8090502@autotelic.com... > PHP List, > > For the last month I have been using Zend Studio and Zend Platform on the > one month trial period. It works well enough that I was considering > purchasing it. > > But it's only now that I realize that the one feature that makes it > worthwhile for me, the "debug server" option, is only available in the > professional edition. > > I'm just a lone PHP programmer doing web pages for mainly non-profit (not > charitable, just extremely cash poor) organizations. The difference > between the 100 US dollar standard edition and the 300 US dollar > professional edition is a deal breaker. > > So I'm looking around for other debugging options. > > The best contender so far has been Quanta with the Gubed plug in. But it > is buggy, and while I've had success in running it, I've also had as much > trouble. Especially with some error messages that won't go away: > http://forum.gubed.mccabe.nu/viewtopic.php?t=396&sid=5b76626496aab99293e062c494a7af2e > > After that PHPeclipse seems good. By "seems" I mean that I've installed > Eclipse and PHPeclipse and can run them and see they have a sexy interface > and all. But trying to download the DBG package that makes PHPeclipse > interface with the server is near impossible. > > As I'm an Ubuntu user, I tried looking up distro-specific instructions for > installing DBG, and the one forum entry on the topic I found: > http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=6672 > ... says to go to this web page: > http://www.phpeclipse.de/tiki-index.php?page=DbgBasedDebugger > ... where the installation instructions are for Windows! > > There's also a package called "NuSphere", which is paid software, but also > rests on the DBG debugger technology. I'm very hesitant to encounter the > same difficulties in installing DBG and having to pay for it as well. > > I asked once before on this list about which PHP editors people recommend, > which is how I heard of Eclipse. > > However, now I'm asking: > > Does anyone know how to get a reliable PHP graphical debugger to actually > install and work on Linux? > > Any tutorials or instructions available anywhere that are newbie friendly? > After all, aren't the newbies the ones most likely to be the ones to use a > GUI debugger? > > Any advice or help would be greatly appreciated. > > Thank you for your time. > > -- > Dave M G > Ubuntu 6.06 LTS > Kernel 2.6.17.7 > Pentium D Dual Core Processor > PHP 5, MySQL 5, Apache 2