2. PHPRunner General questions
  3. PHP Debug, which tool?
This topic is locked

PHP Debug, which tool?

 		6/22/2010 2:45:48 AM
PHPRunner General questions
A
 aalekizoglou author

Hi,
I would like to post the following question:
Which would be a good tool to debug PHP when developing with PHPRunner? Which one are you using, was it easy to set up? Do you utilize an external tool? The reason I am asking is because by now the only way I do debug is utilizing echo and debug variables, but when it comes to real time debuging, variable evaluation, breakpoint and tracing, echoing variables is not enough.
A
 		ann 6/22/2010

Hi,
the most widespreaded tools are multi-language Eclipse and Visual Studio environments.
A
 		aalekizoglou author 7/1/2010



Hi,
the most widespreaded tools are multi-language Eclipse and Visual Studio environments.


Ann,
I suppose you are talking about xdebug and one of the IDE / tools that support it. I understand that Visual Studio needs a third party tools to support php, and even though I will need to setup remote debug and open up files in IDE and set breakpoints. Visual Studio's IDE is great and I find it very helpful to utilize it when writing PHP. On the other hand Eclipse supports XDebug, it has been a great IDE for PHP as well, but it was too difficult to setup remote debug.
Right now I am using notepad++ with the DBG plug-in, but I was wondering what others use and whether there might be a better option.
By the way is there any plan to deploy xdebug within PHPR?
A
 		ann 7/2/2010

Athanasios,
there is 'Check syntax' debugger in PHPRunner. Unfortunately, we do not plan to change it in the near future.