Comments on: How To Setup a Free PHP Debugger using Eclipse PDT + XDebug

By: Thomas Widlar

Thomas Widlar — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 17:39:45 +0000

I’ve decided to have Eclipse CDT as a separate installation.

I still confused as to which XDebug to get.

By: Thomas Widlar

Thomas Widlar — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 20:30:00 +0000

Rob, I’ve read your setup instructions. They are very clear. I will probably have simple questions. Is this where I can ask them?

1. I just installed XAMPP under WinXP. I has PHP 5.2.9. What xdebug should I get?
[Xdebug 2.0.4 Windows binaries:
5.2 VC6 Non-thread-safe, 5.2 VC6,
5.3 VC6 Non-thread-safe, 5.3 VC6,
5.3 VC9Non-thread-safe, 5.3 VC9]

2. I also have a C project I want to do with Eclipse CDT. Can I put the CDT plugin into the Eclipse PDT, or should I have 2 separate Eclipses?

Thanks.

By: Mike Robertson

Mike Robertson — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 16:02:49 +0000

Thank you very much for this tutorial, I can now debug my PHP in eclipse, rather than just using echo statements.

By: gopu

gopu — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 08:04:05 +0000

Thanks a lot Rob. It’s great tutorial, even for a starter in PHP like me, could do it.
Nils comment changing the Run->Debug configuration->Server Debugger to use XDebug helped.

By: Tilak

Tilak — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 06:13:05 +0000

I need some help.
I have WAMP installed on C:\wamp.
I have the all-in-one PDT from eclipse.org that is installed in C:\php_pzero_ide. This comes with the zend debugger which I have not used yet.

This is the simple thing that I want to happen.
1. I create a workspace in C:\php_pzero_ide called MyFirstPHP
2. I write a small hello world test.php in it
3. I have the WAMP server running.

When I press the run button on the PDT, it should be able to run the test.php in the internal browser, if there are no errors and display ‘Hello World’. However, if there are errors, it will debug through the file line by line …

How can I achieve this simple thing?

Thanks so much, in advance!

By: nils

nils — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 07:30:58 +0000

For those of you not hitting breakpoints, I had the same problem. Eclipse was using Zend at port 10000 instead of Xdebug at port 9000. The URL you see should contain somethign like this: XDEBUG_SESSION_START=ECLIPSE_DBGP&KEY=12198785081253 If you see a URL with port 10000 in it, then it’s still trying to use Zend. Otherwise, use phpinfo() as suggested in teh post to see if Xdebug is running.

Cheers Nils

By: nils

nils — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 07:24:47 +0000

Hi Rob, thanks for the tutorial. Your’e missing one thing though, took me about half a day to find.

You can select Xdebug at three different levels: Workspace configuration, Project level configuration and (this one took me half a day) runlevel configuration under RUn -> Run Configurations. Until I had set it to Xdebug there (default was Zend, that’s why it kept listening on port 10000, sigh…) it wouldn’t work, and never seemed to look at the other two config options. No clue why.

Also: I got it working with Netbeans 7.0 m1 without problems, just that I couldn’t get conditional breakpoints to work there (Breakpoint Properties option greyed out). And: Eclipse seems to have the slightly more mature PHP development environment, although I have just started playing with both of them.

Cheers, Nils

By: john

john — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 17:27:20 +0000

Thanks a bunch - some of the eclipse dialogs seemed different when I did this - but it still worked.

By: jayanthi

jayanthi — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 10:33:55 +0000

I have done the steps as above , but still i cant open my php file .

By: Juan Daugherty

Juan Daugherty — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 01:01:21 +0000

BTW, I’m now using PDT 2.0 and can report it does work (even) better than 1.0.x (it’s a major overhaul).