Okay, I have almost given up.
I downloaded the Eclipse Zend PDT meant to debug drupal. http://www.zend.com/en/community/pdt and I set it up very nicely to do my regular editing and developing of my Drupal environment.
But I want to actually debug and investigate lots of different coding situations. However, we decided not to put Zend Debugger on our actually server. So I want to set up a zend debugger locally.
I am running Windows XP SP2 (and I also have a windows Vista Business 64bit I plan to set up after this). I am running PHP 5.2.6 also
Here is what I have tried:
Installed the XAMPP and I am currently running the Apache, MYSQL, and Filezilla service. They were installed "C:\xampp" by default.
I went to various guides online including:
http://www.thierryb.net/pdtwiki/index.php?title=Using_PDT_:_User_Guide_:...
http://www.thierryb.net/pdtwiki/index.php?title=Using_PDT_:_Installation...
http://downloads.zend.com/pdt/server-debugger/
http://blog.tigeryao.com/2008/how-to-allow-zend-optimizer-and-zend-debug...
I think I followed everything those people said to the best of my ability. Nothing. Nada.
I tried every which way to edit my darn php.ini file. I put my dummy.php file in almost every single possible folder that could be my root! I restarted my Apache service each time I changed it. I checked my changes here http://localhost/xampp/.
It just does not work at all. This is very frustrating.
For reference, my local Eclipse Drupal setup is located in "C:\Documents and Settings\Eric\My Documents\MySite" but I don't know how to set that as the root directory? I don't even know what my PDT thinks my root directory is supposed to be. I know in C:\xampp\apache\bin\php.ini I can set a doc_root but that didn't change anything.
So the guides online don't help. The full on "Zend Debugger Eclipse" set up which is meant to be a debugger doesn't work.
How do I actually set up Eclipse to do local Drupal Debugging?
Please someone here help me!!
Thanks
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As a follow up, I Did more
As a follow up, I Did more research and I kept finding that Zend Debugger is just bad. So I tried XDebug and it seems to be working.
Its pretty slow and times out, but I think I am on track to get that thing working.
If anyone cares to share anything, please do. I'd love to read more on this topic. Hopefully one day someone will create a product that is a 1 click install and sets everything up, sort of like Visual Studio or something.
I havent had a chance to try
I havent had a chance to try it yet, but maybe take a look at http://www.codelobster.com
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I will look into codelobster
I will look into codelobster also, subscribing for best way to debugging Drupal!
Greetings,
Martijn
Try increasing the 'max_execution_time'
>Its pretty slow and times out
Try increase 'max_execution_time' in php.ini.
>I think I am on track to get that thing working.
Please keek posting on what you figure out. This is a timely subject for me. I'm beginning to setup my local devel env with debugging.
The best tutorial for Ubuntu
I tried about 10 different tutorials on the web, and kind of had Zend debugger working with the help of a nasty dummy.php file. The I found this tutorial (http://krimson.be/debugging-drupal-6-using-xdebug) for setting up Eclipse on Ubuntu and xDebug. Finally a simple tutorial that works! He gives a lot of good info on how to optimize Eclipse settings for debugging and goes through setting up every aspect of Eclipse. Highly recommended.
-Jeff
www.albatrossdigital.com
Broken Link
Jeff,
I was so pleased to see your comment since I think I've been down the same (dead end) path. However, the link you presented (above) is broken. Any idea where I might turn to find concise setup instruction for my target Eclipse/Ubuntu/xDebug config?
Thanks.
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http://lmgtfy.com/?q=site:krimson.be+xdebug+drupal
how-to handbooks for Ubuntu
Various how-to handbooks for Ubuntu at http://drupal.org/node/765106
how-to handbook
Same here. I wrote a how-to handbook for Windows XP at http://drupal.org/node/765120
This will install the most recent Eclipse 3.5.x on Windows. Then you simply activate any debugger you like from Eclipse menu HELP > INSTALL NEW SOFTWARES
Worked for me. Enjoy :)