[news.eclipse.tools.php] Re: Problems with PDT and Xdebug

[Dave Kelsey <dkel50@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

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Dave Kelsey

IchBin wrote:

> OK I did some testing of "Debug as Web Script with Xdebug". This is what 
> I see:
>
> - select a script in the PHP perspective.
> - run "Debug as Debug"
> - Select "PHP Web Script as Xdebug" and fill in the information for 
> launch. (Brake at first Line)
> - select "debug" button
> - Firefox pop up. This maybe a *problem* because in the 
> preferences\General\Web Browser the "Use Internal Web Browser" is now 
> grayed out. Will only let me use an external browser. That is weird 
> because I had "Use Internal Web Browser" selected before running this 
> debug session.
Don't know why eclipse has decided to not allow you to have an internal browser. Linux
is problematic with this, but windows seems to be ok with this.


> - I then manually open the PHP debug perspective.
> - In the "Debug" tab, on the PHP Debug perspective, I have to open up 
> the tree by selecting the entry under "PHP Thread". I think that this 
> the current line pointer.

This issue is described in the provided documentation.

> - The first thing I see is the the "Variables" tab is loaded with all of 
> the script vars and their values.
> - Debug is stopped at the 3 line of code. This is in the middle of a 
> comment.
> - I can now Step through the script.
> - I can not select "run to next STOP". It will not detect the next 
> manual STOP. It just runs to the end of the script.

"run to next STOP" is not something I am familiar with in PDT. Which version
are you using ? I have not looked at the latest integration level. If you have
a break point defined and you execute (ie F8) do you stop at the defined break point ?
if not, does your apache server have the htdocs set to your workspace ?
I know there is a pathmapper version as well on bugzilla, but I am not familiar with the changes
in that version as they were provided by someone else, are you using the pathmapper
version and trying to map the paths from the workspace to the version running on apache ?

> - When I try to "Step Over" or "Step Into" the script the stepping is 
> not from one line of code to the next all of the time. It is skipping 
> lines of code. Like there is a sync problem between the real script and 
> what Xdebug thinks the next line is.

If you have embedded php code within an html page, I have seen similar results
with xdebug. This could be due to the way php converts non php script code into
echo statements. What version of xdebug are you using ?