Last updated August 11, 2010. Created by cluther on February 23, 2010.
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An 18 minute screencast on how to install and configure the Eclipse IDE for Drupal module development and debugging. Though specific to the Mac OS, most of the content will also be appropriate for users of Linux or Windows.
This screencast covers the following topics:
- Obtaining and installing Eclipse PDT
- Configuring for Drupal Style
- Configuring Drupal Code Templates
- Obtaining and installing the Zend Debugger
- Configuring Eclipse to use the Zend Debugger
More specifically, the screencast details setting up the following configuration: Mac OS 10.6, Drupal 6, MAMP 1.8 (Apache 2, MySQL 5.1, PHP5), Eclipse PDT 3.1 (Galileo), ZEND Debugger 5.2.
Written and recorded by Chris Luther of AgileID
Watch the screencast.
For problems experienced with aspects of this installation method, see this blog post and this one.
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OK, so this sets up the environment and shows how to load the first page. Now I want to debug stuff deep into the system way in back of first pages. How do I get the debugger to break on something way in the back?