You can download the Zend Eclipse IDE & debugger for free also (http://www.zend.com/en/community/pdt). - while it doesn't have all the bells and whistles of Zend Server (it also doesn't have the price tag).
The last time I used it (2-3 years ago) it was a little flaky - but I started using it again a few days ago and it's come a long way. While it still has some issues with introspection it feels more stable. I've not yet played with the debugger though - I lost a few hours on a project getting svn integration working so it can wait for a rainy day. Generally though I've had problems getting PHP debuggers to ignore certain files (such as code within frameworks when an exception happens). -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Lee Bolding Sent: 01 May 2009 12:38 To: [email protected] Subject: [symfony-users] Re: Best practice for debugging ? Ofcourse, I'm gonna mention sfErrorHandlerPlugin again :) The Symfony debug bar, FireBug and sfErrorHandlerPlugin are a great combination, however if you want something a bit more powerful, take a look at Zend Server. I saw a demo of Zend Server yesterday, it's got some great debugging in it - not only does it actively monitor and log pages with errors or slow loading pages for later analysis, but it also saves all of the request variables and session etc, so that you can "replay" the scenario over and over so that you can easily replicate and debug the problem. I can see that this feature alone could save countless hours during development and once an application has been made live - the additional benefits of the caching and support are also pretty cool. Certainly, I'm seriously considering buying licenses for my development VM and my live servers. If you have a lot of servers (or developers) though, it can become quite expensive - it's around €1200 per license. On 30 Apr 2009, at 19:23, Eno wrote: > > On Thu, 30 Apr 2009, Benjamin wrote: > >> Is there a way to use one of them to debug Symfony pages ? >> Features like breakpoints, variables live tracking, etc... seem to be >> very usefull... > > I dont use IDEs but between the symfony debug bar, the Apache logs and > FireBug+FirePHP, I get the job done. > > > > -- > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "symfony users" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/symfony-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
