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Tutorial for setting up PDT + XDebug [message #73081]

Thu, 12 June 2008 07:05

Eclipse User

Originally posted by: robj1_nospam.robsnotebook.com

Hi:

I created a step by step tutorial for setting up PDT to work with XDebug,
you may find it here:

http://robsnotebook.com/php_debugger_pdt_xdebug

Any comments on it are greatly appreciated!

Rob

Re: Tutorial for setting up PDT + XDebug [message #73194 is a reply to message #73081]

Thu, 12 June 2008 11:13

Eclipse User

thanks for sharing! can you please update our tutorials page?

link is :
http://wiki.eclipse.org/PDT/TUTORIALS

Re: Tutorial for setting up PDT + XDebug [message #73229 is a reply to message #73194]

Thu, 12 June 2008 12:24

Eclipse User

Originally posted by: robj1_nospam.robsnotebook.com

I would love to add it to the Wiki, but when I try to create an account,
it gives me an error:

Login error:
Incorrect password entered. Please try again.

I entered in the same password in both edit boxes, so I don't understand
why it does that.

Re: Tutorial for setting up PDT + XDebug [message #73246 is a reply to message #73229]

Thu, 12 June 2008 14:20

Eclipse User

do you have a bugzilla account?

you should create one first at
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/createaccount.cgi

Re: Tutorial for setting up PDT + XDebug [message #73348 is a reply to message #73246]

Thu, 12 June 2008 17:08

Eclipse User

Originally posted by: user.domain.invalid

Roy Ganor wrote:
> do you have a bugzilla account?
>
> you should create one first at
> https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/createaccount.cgi
>
>

OK, just created a bugzilla account and added this tutorial to the
tutorials page. Thanks!

I also added all the bugs I reported in the newsgroup today to bugzilla.

Re: Tutorial for setting up PDT + XDebug [message #73399 is a reply to message #73081]

Fri, 13 June 2008 10:01

Eclipse User

Originally posted by: user.domain.invalid

> Any comments on it are greatly appreciated!

One thing I would recommend - don't tell people to enable the profiler by
default... set this to 0, not 1:

xdebug.profiler_enable=0

The profiler will produce very large data files very fast. When I first learned
about this xdebug tool, I got hundreds of megabytes worth of data over a short
time and I didn't know where all these cachegrind files were coming from! :)
They come from the profiler.

Explain to people what this setting is and when they would want to set it to 1
(which is when they want to use a tool like KCacheGrind to find bottlenecks in
their code)

Rob Bresalier wrote:
> Hi:
>
> I created a step by step tutorial for setting up PDT to work with
> XDebug, you may find it here:
>
> http://robsnotebook.com/php_debugger_pdt_xdebug
>
> Any comments on it are greatly appreciated!
>
> Rob
>
>

Re: Tutorial for setting up PDT + XDebug [message #73733 is a reply to message #73081]

Fri, 20 June 2008 22:50

Eclipse User

I am going thru your tutorial right now. Two things I would like to
reccomend off the bat.

#1 try get a hosting site that does not have a floating advert that you
view cannot close. I had to resize the window in order to get the advert
off your text.
#2 put the screen shots in the man article even if they are in a smaller
size the the actual graphic. It was disconcerting to have to go back and
forth from your tutorial text to the screen shots page just to make sure
what you were discribing was what I was seeing on my screen.

Re: Tutorial for setting up PDT + XDebug [message #73751 is a reply to message #73081]

Sat, 21 June 2008 00:09

Eclipse User

Well I follows your tute and I must say it got me farther then any other
tutorial I have ever read. But when I finally press the debug button on
the new configuration screen I got a browser window that said "No Input
file specified" and that was it just that. Not even any html or php code
in the browsers source window. Any Ideas?

Re: Tutorial for setting up PDT + XDebug [message #74053 is a reply to message #73751]

Fri, 27 June 2008 13:35

Eclipse User

Originally posted by: robj1_nospam.robsnotebook.com

Hi Shaba1:

I don't read this newsgroup that often, so didn't see your message until
now. If you want faster responses from me, its better to post comments
on my tutorial page. Here's my responses to your questions:

> #1 try get a hosting site that does not have a floating advert that you
> view cannot close. I had to resize the window in order to get the advert
> off your text.

I've tested this on IE and Firefox, and there shouldn't be a floating
advert, its position should be fixed on the page. What OS and browser
are you using? I can fix this problem, but I wasn't aware of it until
now, nobody else has said anything about that.

> #2 put the screen shots in the man article even if they are in a smaller
> size the the actual graphic. It was disconcerting to have to go back and
> forth from your tutorial text to the screen shots page just to make sure
> what you were discribing was what I was seeing on my screen.
>

I can do that, but it is more work for me. Maybe someday.

> Well I follows your tute and I must say it got me farther then any other
> tutorial I have ever read. But when I finally press the debug button on
> the new configuration screen I got a browser window that said "No Input
> file specified" and that was it just that. Not even any html or php code
> in the browsers source window. Any Ideas?
>
>

I suspect that you didn't specify the file properly in step 7.i.5, in
the "Run->Open Debug Dialog" window.

Rob

Re: Tutorial for setting up PDT + XDebug [message #75260 is a reply to message #73081]

Tue, 08 July 2008 10:30

Eclipse User

Btw, I believe there is a bug in the current nightlies that prevents you
to choose XDebug in the workspace preferences dialog. The setting is not
persistent. The per-project dialog does work.

Cheers,
Andi

Rob Bresalier wrote:
> Hi:
>
> I created a step by step tutorial for setting up PDT to work with
> XDebug, you may find it here:
>
> http://robsnotebook.com/php_debugger_pdt_xdebug
>
> Any comments on it are greatly appreciated!
>
> Rob
>
>

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