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Zen php debugger [message #981851]

Mon, 12 November 2012 18:57

John Wright

Messages: 2
Registered: November 2012

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I have been playing with this for two days. Installed Eclipse Classic. Installed Pdt and Zend debugger ( at least Eclipse recognizes Zend). But when I try to debug a php script I get an error about running the debugger as a php.ini directive. The precise error is:

"Error launching xxx.php. The debug session could not be started. Please make sure that the debugger is properly configured as a php.ini directive."

I have no idea what that means or how to fix it.

Any help appreciated

John

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Re: Zen php debugger [message #982140 is a reply to message #981851]

Tue, 13 November 2012 00:20

John Wright

Messages: 2
Registered: November 2012

Junior Member

Well, I sorta fixed the problem. I just changed from ZEND to xdebug. That seems to be working OK, except I can't get it to observer the break points.

I'm not sure, but it seems to me that eclipse is more trouble than its worth. There seems to be limited documentation that I have been able to find on PHP ide, and even less on problems that arise. I used eclipse years ago and it worked great right out of the box. What happened?

Now I can't get eclipse php to run mysql_connect(). It runs fine from the cli, but not from a cli within eclipse. Just seems a lot of work just to run an ide??

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