Getting xdebug to work

[cothedo]

Hello,

There are several posts about xdebug, however I'm unable to solve the problem I'm having.
I'm trying to get xdebug to work. When the option is selected, it will step through a php document from the beginning, but it won't stop at any of the breakpoints. If the debug from the beginning is disabled, it won't stop in the document at all, no matter how many breakpoints I set.

I tried this piece of code: http://blogs.sun.com/netbeansphp/entry/howto_check_xdebug_installation, and when I try it in firefox, the page won't load. I have no clue where to look for the answer, and a desparate attempt to fix it (turning off the firewall), gave no results either.

I'm not sure what information you'll require. I have Windows XP Pro with wamp (wampserver 2.0)

[Filip Zamboj]

cothedo wrote:

[Alex Mace]

I don't know if this is just my experience, but it certainly used to
stop of breakpoints. Somewhere around RC3 (or even RC2, I don't debug
that regularly) no longer honours breakpoints...

On 24 Jun 2009, at 06:19, cothedo wrote:

[radek matous]

Alex Mace wrote:

[Jeff Rubinoff]

I had a similar problem with XAMPP and RC3. I found that I needed to
comment out the line extension=php_xdebug[somethingsomething].dll. I had
originally needed to uncomment the line to keep the Apache server from
crashing, in XAMPP 1.7.0. Then I had to comment it out again after
upgrading to XAMPP 1.7.1 in order for NB to stop at breakpoints.
It might not have been a problem with XAMPP but a problem with whichever
Apache server they had bundled in 1.7.0. I thought though they put the
same one in 1.7.1.

Jeff


Alex Mace wrote:

[Alex Mace]

Excuse my ignorance, but surely commenting out the xdebug extension
would disable debugging all together?

Alex

On 24 Jun 2009, at 11:11, Jeff Rubinoff wrote:

[Jeff Rubinoff]

Alex,
One would think. But the extension=[xdebug dll file] line seems to
prevent NB from stopping at breakpoints. As long as the line
zend_extension_ts=[absolute path to xdebug dll] and other relevant lines
in the [xdebug] section of php.ini are uncommented and correct, and zend
optimizer stuff is commented out, the PHP engine has no problem finding
the xdebug extension. I have no idea what the line extension=[xdebug dll
file] is for, or why it only seems to be necessary for XAMPP 1.7.0 (and
even then I recall that NB didn't stop at breakpoints).

Jeff

Alex Mace wrote:

[AGeorge]

This may help some:
If you have two web server clients in Windows installed, uninstall one of them.

Note also that xdebug does not operate on java pages, it only 'syncs' in when you browse to a page containing php. So if you sit on a html page without php you'll be waiting forever!
Al.