For end users, I would find the current documentation misleading. Although it may not be in Zend's interest to include links to external/competing products, debugging is such a vital part of a language that it's deemed necessary. Because, to the uninclined, it appears the only debugging facility in PHP-4 are various print statements, and remote debugging would be an essential addition to a language that is so Internet-ready.
Just my .02. Hans Gabor Hojtsy wrote: > > > 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
