Re: Recommendations for PHP debuggers?

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Check out PHPEdit from http://www.waterproof.fr/products/PHPEdit/  It has an 
integrated debugger and is a lot cheaper than Zend Studio Pro.

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Tony Marston
http://www.tonymarston.net
http://www.radicore.org

"Dave M G" <martin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message 
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> 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 

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