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

[IchBin <weconsul@xxxxxxx>]

Dave Kelsey wrote:
[snip]

> XDebug requires that you specify the absolute file location that you want
> the breakpoint set on. Within Eclipse you set a breakpoint on a file in
> your workspace. The absolute name of this file is used when informing 
> xdebug
> of the file that has the break point. If apache is then executing a copy of
> that file but is in a different location, xdebug won't stop because the 
> break
> point is set on the file in your workspace, not the file executing in 
> PHP under
> apache.
>
> The pathmapper version was provided by someone else by modifying my 
> original code
> plus adding some extra gui bits. The idea was to allow you to create a 
> map between
> the code in your workspace and the code running in apache such that the 
> break point
> is set on the correct file.
>
> I had planned to work on support which allows for scripts executing in 
> apache which
> were not the same files as the ones in your workspace but I have not had 
> time. The
> idea would be for it to work in conjunction with the "publish" 
> capabilities of PDT
> but as there has been churn in that area of PDT I didn't want to go down 
> that route
> until PDT stablised.
>
> I hope this explains how the xdebug implementation currently works so 
> that you can
> find a solution for getting it to break at break points when running in 
> apache. If
> you don't want to have htdocs point to your workspace you could trying 
> using the pathmapper
> function as you have downloaded the pathmapper version. I have not 
> looked at this
> version myself so cannot help you with using it.
[snip]

Thank you Dave for all you efforts with the Eclipse PHP Xdebug 
implementation and for helping me along the way.

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