Re: [tlug] Recommendations for PHP debuggers?

[Dave M G <martin@example.com>]

Stephen,

Thank you for your detailed help.

I won't whine about the continuing differences between instructions and 
reality that I encountered, and skip to the part where I was able to get 
DBG installed so that a phpinfo() output shows:
Zend Engine v2.1.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2006 Zend Technologies
with DBG v2.13.1, (C) 2000,2006, by Dmitri Dmitrienko

The latter line being indicative of success, or so I'm led to believe.

Now, to actually get it, PHPeclipse, to do something. Or, in other 
words, the next wall of incomprehension.

According to this site:
http://www.phpeclipse.de/tiki-index.php?page=RemoteDebugging

I need to go to the "Debug Configuration" dialog, and find the 
"Environment -> Remote Debug" setting.

Which, as you might predict, does not exist anywhere in the interface.

Or if it does, it's hidden in an unmarked box, buried in a mine shaft, 
and guarded by tigers.

For amusements sake, I tried hitting the "debug" button in the 
interface, and it says:
"You must define and interpreter before running PHP."
I don't know if that's a different issue from above or not, just that 
nowhere have I encountered any instructions to set up an "interpreter".

Not that I'm expecting TLUG members to be totally informed about the 
Eclipse interface with regards to PHP, or the PHPeclipse module (which 
I'm not sure what the difference is).

But since TLUGers were able to make what seemed to me to be complete 
gibberish before and shed some light, maybe something similar can happen 
again.

But also looks like I'll have to join a PHPeclipse forum or mailing list 
if I can find one.

--
Dave M G
Ubuntu 6.06 LTS
Kernel 2.6.17.7
Pentium D Dual Core Processor
PHP 5, MySQL 5, Apache 2