I was about to ask the question but noticed i've already done so twice :) so basically it's about using pspad as a client for php_xdebug
http://www.xdebug.org/docs/remote it's been reported it works with notepad++ and eclipse but i love pspad i don't wanna switch to anything else... please tell me i wont have to cope with eclipse, i'm so sick of it :'( -- <http://forum.pspad.com/read.php?2,48971,51065> PSPad freeware editor http://www.pspad.com
