By jbesad01 on

Does anyone use NuSphere's PHPEd to comfortably dubug modules in drupal? or any other IDEs? And if so how did you set it up?

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moshe weitzman’s picture

moshe weitzman commented

i use activestate komodo which is available for linux and windows. when on OSX, I use http://www.xdebug.org and its built in debug client which is command line but better than nothing.

watching drupal run in a debugger is the absolute best way for a new person to learn the drupal codebase.

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jbesad01 commented

Thanks,

I tried komodo and followed its debugging setup instructions below and everything is working great.

http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/docs/Komodo/3.1/komodo-doc-debugphp.html

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reggie75 commented

thanks, i got komodo up too, and got it debugging "remote php scripts" ..

what i cant figure out is:

i can set breakpoints in the index.php file, and the control breaks there - but how do i set breakpoints in the module file using the IDE?

one way i know is inserting the line "xdebug_break();" where you want the break, but is there another way to do it using the IDE? I tried just opening the file and setting a breakpoint in the left but it didnt seem to work ..

thanks in advance!
rajesh

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liquidcms commented

I have just started using Drupal this weekend.. and sure enough as with any OS CMS... need to hack things. I use the DBG debugger; used in phpED and phpEdit (and likely others).

Wasn't expecting things to go to smoothly debugging drupal but i have it "mostly" working.

right out of the box it wouldn't work:

- usually i debug with local SRV server; that didnt work
- switched to cgi in external browser and that sort of worked
- had to comment out some EVAL line in common.inc->drupal_add_link() about checking php version
- then running through modules (i think maybe cuz of extension not being php) i couldn't do "run to cursor" but i could hit breakpoints

only been at it for a couple hours so that's as far as i have gotten ... hopefullly i will get to a cleaner solution soon.

I am more familiar with Tikiwiki as a CMS... it debugs with no problem.

Peter Lindstrom
LiquidCMS - Content Solution Experts

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mjohnq3 commented

Does anyone use Zend (ver 4 or 5) to write and debug modules. How would you set it up? Thanks.

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yueyuezhou commented

I am able to debug (hold down cntl key in the internal browser), but the out put always show me the default front page.
It's OK just navigate (not hold down cntl key in the internal browser).