Here’s the bizarre thing. If I use my browser to go to my test page that has phpinfo() on it. It shows dbg as loaded.

When I run or debug the page inside Eclipse, the phpinfo() output doesn’t show dbg at all.

The version of php is the same and both runs show the exact same php.ini file.

I can’t imagine why dbg is not loading when Eclipse runs php.exe.

I just landed here by googling “eclipse php dbg debugbreak” and I made it with your precious help!

Your page was my last stop before getting it to work! In a desperate attempt i copied your modifications to php.ini into mine and I could finally see the break point magic!

Anyway, the “gem” page you mention is not that helpful… since the mods to php.ini are not complete there.

But the main problem for me was to get the right versions working: that page says you need Eclipse 3.1, but follow the link and find out! It ain’t there! It is nowhere to be found in the Eclipse website! It ceased to exist! That dead parrot has gone to meet the creator

So i read at the PHP Development Studio Forum that maybe upgrading PHPEclipse to 1.1.9 (and that is CVS, unstable version) would work.

I did it. But at the same time that I was upgrading PHPEclipse beyond the stable line, I was having trouble getting the DBG loaded in PHP: the latest PHP supported is 5.1.2… and that means I can’t you use Apache 2.2…

Downgrading the server was a real pain and a real nonsense… I’m not very experienced so downloading, installing and integrating the right versions of apache+php by myself just didn’t work…

So I downloaded half a dozen versions of XAMPP until i got it right: XAMPP 1.5.0 comes with Apache 2.0.55 and PHP 5.0.5 which is fine for me.

But it didn’t work! The DBG was loading according to phpinfo() but not responding to the breakpoints. Even the breakpoint() function was giving the “Call to undefined function”

The problem was that i only had replaced the first line of the ZEND block in php.ini instead of the whole block, like you did!

Thanks Vijucat!

And to help out those that are looking for answers in 2007:

1) Eclipse 3.3.2 + PHPEclipse 1.1.9 (CVS) is working and debugging.
2) But you still need an older version of PHP because DBG only supports up to PHP 5.1.2.
3) So Get Latest Apache 2.0 from apache.org and PHP 5.1.2 from php.net
4) or… Get XAMPP 1.5.0 (from old realeases at sourceforge) if you are like me and can’t handle step 3

There are still some issues unsolved, probably related to the unstable nature of PHPEclipse 1.1.9 CVS, I read they are trying to meet the new debugging model of Eclipse 3.3

tomorrow i try debugging with OO variables and breakpoints scattered around several included files….(wouldn’t need a debugger if it was all plain prints in a flat file anyway)

but now I’m going to get some sleep while this happy smile lasts…

Thanks again

@westblue I have the same problem with phpeclipse 1.1.8

@rob Did you open the “original Debug” perspective? I copied the “Debug” perspective to “php_debug” (as I use “Debug” for Java debugging) but that didn’t work. I have to use the “Debug” perspective to see content inside the “Variables” view.

I also have another problem: When I’m in debugging mode – meaning I’m in Debug perspective and the editor highlights the line the script currently is – and I try to go a step further – no matter whether step into, step over or step out – nothing happens. Just when I close the thread tree and reopen it again the editor steps one line further.
To me it seems like the Debug-View (the thread window) and the editor aren’t refreshed correctly. What do you think?

Has somebody already experienced this? Does somebody perhaps a good solution?
Thanks for your help.

I have followed install instructions, can get the debugger to stop on breakpoints ok but the variables panel is never populated. Does anyone have any hints / seen this themselves ? Thanks.