Re: Recommendations for PHP debuggers?

From:	Colin Guthrie	Date:	Mon, 21 Aug 2006 08:26:27 +0000
Subject:	Re: Recommendations for PHP debuggers?
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Marcus Bointon wrote:

On 21 Aug 2006, at 04:55, Dave M G wrote:
So I'm looking around for other debugging options.
One oft-overlooked option: xdebug.org. It enhances PHP's built-in debugging features enormously, adds profiling, trace and coverage logging, remote debugging too. The improved readability of stack traces alone makes it worthwhile IMHO.

Be warned tho'. I have had several odd apache crashes when running PHP as a module with xdebug installed. Totally inexplicable and very confusing (not to mention it took me a while to be able to run httpd via gdb successfully!) If you're using PHP Eclipse, it may be worth looking at the Zend alternative Eclipse plugin. I've not hooked up the debugger yet, but it /should/ be good if it's from Zend. http://www.zend.com/phpide/ PS the all-in-one package is probably easier to get started with rather than your distro's Eclipse package (took me about an hour to get all the dependancies located and installed), tho' it does work either way. Col.