Are you sure you need a debugger? I find the best tools around for debugging are echo(), print_r(), ob_xxxx(), and error_log(). Of course, I use a function that wraps the print_r(), and ob_xxx() functions for simplicity. I've never found a debugger for PHP to be particularly useful. Cheers, Rob. On Mon, 2006-08-21 at 12:55 +0900, Dave M G wrote: > PHP List, > > For the last month I have been using Zend Studio and Zend Platform on > the one month trial period. It works well enough that I was considering > purchasing it. > > But it's only now that I realize that the one feature that makes it > worthwhile for me, the "debug server" option, is only available in the > professional edition. > > I'm just a lone PHP programmer doing web pages for mainly non-profit > (not charitable, just extremely cash poor) organizations. The difference > between the 100 US dollar standard edition and the 300 US dollar > professional edition is a deal breaker. > > So I'm looking around for other debugging options. > > The best contender so far has been Quanta with the Gubed plug in. But it > is buggy, and while I've had success in running it, I've also had as > much trouble. Especially with some error messages that won't go away: > http://forum.gubed.mccabe.nu/viewtopic.php?t=396&sid=5b76626496aab99293e062c494a7af2e > > After that PHPeclipse seems good. By "seems" I mean that I've installed > Eclipse and PHPeclipse and can run them and see they have a sexy > interface and all. But trying to download the DBG package that makes > PHPeclipse interface with the server is near impossible. > > As I'm an Ubuntu user, I tried looking up distro-specific instructions > for installing DBG, and the one forum entry on the topic I found: > http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=6672 > ... says to go to this web page: > http://www.phpeclipse.de/tiki-index.php?page=DbgBasedDebugger > ... where the installation instructions are for Windows! > > There's also a package called "NuSphere", which is paid software, but > also rests on the DBG debugger technology. I'm very hesitant to > encounter the same difficulties in installing DBG and having to pay for > it as well. > > I asked once before on this list about which PHP editors people > recommend, which is how I heard of Eclipse. > > However, now I'm asking: > > Does anyone know how to get a reliable PHP graphical debugger to > actually install and work on Linux? > > Any tutorials or instructions available anywhere that are newbie > friendly? After all, aren't the newbies the ones most likely to be the > ones to use a GUI debugger? > > Any advice or help would be greatly appreciated. > > Thank you for your time. > > -- > Dave M G > Ubuntu 6.06 LTS > Kernel 2.6.17.7 > Pentium D Dual Core Processor > PHP 5, MySQL 5, Apache 2 > -- .------------------------------------------------------------. | InterJinn Application Framework - http://www.interjinn.com | :------------------------------------------------------------: | An application and templating framework for PHP. Boasting | | a powerful, scalable system for accessing system services | | such as forms, properties, sessions, and caches. InterJinn | | also provides an extremely flexible architecture for | | creating re-usable components quickly and easily. | `------------------------------------------------------------' -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
