Debug php Eclipse

Question

I'm having a very hard time getting a breakpoint to hit in some php code. I don't do much php so might be newbie error.

I've read though the other questions, PDT Install Instructions, and XDebug Install Instructions

For both debuggers, the instructions expect a config section to show up in the phpinfo() and it doesn't for me.

Some info about my current setup

• Windows
• AMPPS
• PHP 5.2.17
• Website runs fine

I need some help with things to check or ideas what I might need to do differently.

I'm stuck pretty much for now.

Answer 1

Two main things that fixed my issues.

1. Turned off Iron PHP Loader
2. copied the non-ts XDebug .dll, even though the php config shows thread safe = enabled. This dll seems to work

The config settings are below for reference:

;Stuff to allow debugging in eclipse 
zend_extension="C:\Program Files (x86)\Ampps\php\ext\php_xdebug-2.2.3-5.3-vc9.dll"
xdebug.remote_enable=On
xdebug.remote_autostart=On
xdebug.remote_handler=dbgp
xdebug.remote_host=127.0.0.1
xdebug.remote_port=9000
xdebug.remote_mode=req

You do have to make sure and add the extra xdebug configurations or eclipse won't cooperate.

Answer 2

You can follow this post to install Xdebug for PHP in AMPPS.