PHP Web service development using Netbeans

Question

I have a simple web service(Restful) developed using PHP, it is purely service, no web page at all. Previously I simply used Aptana as text editor, and put all the source files under the WAMP server's www directory. Now there are more features needed so I would like to use Netbeans as the IDE and utilize the XDebug to do debugging(previously I simply used logs to find errors). However I can not find a suitable tutorial to get started. I have imported the php files into the Netbeans 7.4 as a PHP application, but I got lost how to configure it so it can "run" on the WAMP server and doing debug. Can anyone either show me how to do the basic configuration or point out some good tutorials?

Thanks Ray

Answer 1

Thanks for the link provided in your comments, now it works, here is the config in the php.ini

[xdebug]
xdebug.remote_enable = on
xdebug.remote_handler=dbgp
xdebug.remote_host=localhost
xdebug.remote_port=9000
xdebug.idekey="netbeans-xdebug"
xdebug.remote_autostart=on
xdebug.profiler_enable = on
xdebug.profiler_enable_trigger = on
xdebug.profiler_output_name = cachegrind.out.%t.%p
xdebug.profiler_output_dir = "d:/wamp/tmp"

this line must be included: "xdebug.remote_autostart=on", previously I did not have it, nor the xdebug.idekey, however the xdebug.idekey is not important, it can be different than the session id in the Options.

Answer 2

What did you research? Let me google that for you: php netbeans xdebug

2nd result is Debugging PHP Source Code in the NetBeans IDE

During that tutorial, it links to a tutorial of how to set up XAMPP (not WAMP) for NetBeans.