Re: debugging PECL extension with eclipse or other IDE

On Sun, 2011-04-17 at 10:11 +0200, Pierre Joye wrote: > hi, > > I don't think it is possible unless you can attach bins at runtime to > these debuggers. > > You should use GDB and one of its graphical frontends if a console > tool is not your cup of team. Eclipse CDT, NetBeans, kdevelop, ... and whatever you find are frontends to gdb. They all allow attaching a debugger to a running process as well as starting a program under the debugger. Often you can't easily type in custom gdb commands though. So you can make use of the .gdbinit macros provided, which can be a down side ... But that are mostly questions fro the different IDE vendors and independent from PHP. I think it is always good to first get the understanding of the tools and environments (therefore use it at command line) and then use a funky shiny GUI for things where it brings benefit (sometimes GUIs have nice ways to show data structures etc. which can become messy on command line) while knowing what's actually going on. johannes