How do you debug with php
I have just had a frustrating few days trying, and failing to set up a
debugging session with a php based web app.
My setup is a yii based application, but with the framework sitting in a
separate directory since (supposidely) the only file you actually have
to expose to the web space is the index.php as the base url.
So my document root is at ~/dev/football/app and the framework is at
~/dev/yii/framework
I would like to put a breakpoint on the index.php in document root and
single step tracking its progress through the entire sequence.
I have tried with multiple versions of eclipse with the PDT tools and
xdebug. But whatever I do I end never hitting any breakpoints
(including the fact that it says break before the first line).
I have tried with kdevelop and the kdevelop-php plugin. I got it
running once, but now It crashes before it even loads.
I have tried with phpstorm, but it seems to need the entire php code
within the web space, and doesn't allow for document root somewhere
inside the directory hierarchy (at least i can't find a way to set it up).
debian doesn't seem to support the potential addings to vim and emacs.
What do others use?
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Alan Chandler
http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk
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