Re: [PHP] Recommendations for PHP debuggers?

2006-08-22 Thread Larry Garfield
On Tuesday 22 August 2006 00:26, Lester Caine wrote: Larry Garfield wrote: I'm watching this thread closely myself, as I'd love something to use at home (on Linux) that doesn't cost what Zend does. :-) Currently I use PHPeclipse, but it is frankly not that good (the code assistance feature

Re: [PHP] Recommendations for PHP debuggers?

2006-08-21 Thread Dave M G
Paul, Robert, Thank you for replying and for your recomendations. While looking into PHP debuggers, I've often come across mention of simply using functions like var_dump() and print_r(). But unless I misunderstand the concept, one has to be always writing these commands into the code, see

Re: [PHP] Recommendations for PHP debuggers?

2006-08-21 Thread Marcus Bointon
On 21 Aug 2006, at 04:55, Dave M G wrote: So I'm looking around for other debugging options. One oft-overlooked option: xdebug.org. It enhances PHP's built-in debugging features enormously, adds profiling, trace and coverage logging, remote debugging too. The improved readability of stack

Re: [PHP] Recommendations for PHP debuggers?

2006-08-21 Thread Larry Garfield
I use the Zend IDE at work, and honestly I love just about everything about it except the price. The setup can be tricky, but I'm an IT guy so it didn't take weeks, just an hour or two with our company server. :-) Having used both the real time debugger and print-method (sometimes fancily

Re: [PHP] Recommendations for PHP debuggers?

2006-08-21 Thread Yann Larrivee
Hello, Just use xdebug www.xdebug.org It's nice, and IDE independant. It also generate code profile (in case you need to optimise) Has far has IDE wise. I know Komodo use xdebug for it's debugger and code step trough, so it must be good. If you have more questions regarding xdebug let me

Re: [PHP] Recommendations for PHP debuggers?

2006-08-21 Thread Lester Caine
Larry Garfield wrote: I'm watching this thread closely myself, as I'd love something to use at home (on Linux) that doesn't cost what Zend does. :-) Currently I use PHPeclipse, but it is frankly not that good (the code assistance feature is rudimentary at best), and I've not setup the

[PHP] Recommendations for PHP debuggers?

2006-08-20 Thread Dave M G
PHP List, For the last month I have been using Zend Studio and Zend Platform on the one month trial period. It works well enough that I was considering purchasing it. But it's only now that I realize that the one feature that makes it worthwhile for me, the debug server option, is only

Re: [PHP] Recommendations for PHP debuggers?

2006-08-20 Thread Robert Cummings
Are you sure you need a debugger? I find the best tools around for debugging are echo(), print_r(), ob_(), and error_log(). Of course, I use a function that wraps the print_r(), and ob_xxx() functions for simplicity. I've never found a debugger for PHP to be particularly useful. Cheers, Rob.

Re: [PHP] Recommendations for PHP debuggers?

2006-08-20 Thread Paul Scott
On Mon, 2006-08-21 at 00:18 -0400, Robert Cummings wrote: Are you sure you need a debugger? I find the best tools around for debugging are echo(), print_r(), ob_(), and error_log(). Of course, I use a function that wraps the print_r(), and ob_xxx() functions for simplicity. I've never