> > As I understand it, remote debugging is available in PHP-4. For > > instance, I was looking into some IDEs and the company said remote > > debugging works fine in PHP-4. I also talked to some people on IRC and > > they said the same thing. > > Yes and no. Debugging is available via _external_ debuggers. There is no > debugger shipped with PHP. See http://dd.cron.ru/dbg/ for exmaple.
The text on the Debugging PHP 3 page actually says, there is no debugger in PHP 4 "yet". This can make people think there will be any. As Zend have its own commercial debugger, I don't think so, there will be any internal one in PHP 4 / 5 planned. I am happy with the situation till we have free alternatives ;) The question is whether it would be politically correct to add links to the Debugging section to PHP 4 external debuggers (like Zend debugger and DBG). Don't know if there are any more... It would help people find the solution, and as debugging is a quite basic part of development, this won't show us as bug guys, who had debugging, but removed, and there is no such feature now... Goba
