I have never used a debugger for PHP; I think your struggles are part of the reason why.
Instead I just use debug statements when I hit a problem - probably not quite
as clean as using a debugger.
Something like this helps me a lot:
> function pre_print_r($a) {
> print "\n<pre>\n";
> print_r($a);
> print "\n</pre>\n";
> }
https://github.com/dimmer/impphp/blob/master/Utilities.php
Well, that, and setup error and exception handlers which output a backtrace.
Using these tools I've gotten
by without a debugger on large projects.
-Chris
On Apr 16, 2012, at 4:29 PM, Alan Chandler wrote:
> I have just had a frustrating few days trying, and failing to set up a
> debugging session with a php based web app.
>
> My setup is a yii based application, but with the framework sitting in a
> separate directory since (supposidely) the only file you actually have to
> expose to the web space is the index.php as the base url.
>
> So my document root is at ~/dev/football/app and the framework is at
> ~/dev/yii/framework
>
> I would like to put a breakpoint on the index.php in document root and single
> step tracking its progress through the entire sequence.
>
> I have tried with multiple versions of eclipse with the PDT tools and xdebug.
> But whatever I do I end never hitting any breakpoints (including the fact
> that it says break before the first line).
>
> I have tried with kdevelop and the kdevelop-php plugin. I got it running
> once, but now It crashes before it even loads.
>
> I have tried with phpstorm, but it seems to need the entire php code within
> the web space, and doesn't allow for document root somewhere inside the
> directory hierarchy (at least i can't find a way to set it up).
>
> debian doesn't seem to support the potential addings to vim and emacs.
>
> What do others use?
>
>
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