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Debugging

By Peter Ford Posted Tuesday 13th May 2008 08:52 GMT

I tried Netbeans EA PHP yesterday and found I could not make the Xdebug link work: there's no documentation, or even hints, about how to debug code. I know it's Early Access, but if it's not intuitive then at least an example would have helped.

I've used Netbeans a lot for Java development, including attaching the debugger to remote Tomcat server to debug, which is really nice. If someone can give me a clue about getting Xdebug working with Netbeans I'd be really happy.

interesting

By John Macintyre Posted Tuesday 13th May 2008 09:13 GMT

been using phpEclipse in Eclipse (funnily enough) for a while now, been pretty good. Be interesting to try this one and see how it compares, sounds like it's a bit more brushed though I'm using an old version the former plugin anyway

Looks nice

By Tony Humphreys Posted Tuesday 13th May 2008 13:42 GMT

Certainly appears to compete well with zde, and free too!

If NetBeans can properly mount and use nautilus's server shares (zde cant) then this will clinch it for me.

Editing filed via FTP would be good, as it is useful in zde when it hits the fan.

I like the memory thing at the top too (no idea what it is though it looks useful)

Memory thing

By Nicholas Moore Posted Wednesday 14th May 2008 01:06 GMT

Lets you know how much memory Netbeans is taking up at that time. Clicking on it makes Netbeans run the garbage collector - very useful indeed!

The new version of Netbeans seems pretty fast, especially compared to my installation of Eclipse. As for PHP - I've always written it in gedit/vim, but for larger projects, I would be tempted to try Netbeans from what I've seen so far whilst playing with it...

So in general, I'm impressed. Could be a contender for my IDE of choice...

Interesting

By Mark Rendle Posted Wednesday 14th May 2008 14:22 GMT

I seem to have landed on NetBeans as my Ruby IDE of choice (since Ruby In Steel costs megabucks), so if the PHP support works out well that would get me back down to two IDEs.

Xdebug, PHP in NetBeans, etc...

By Wen Posted Friday 23rd May 2008 00:18 GMT

Re: Peter, did you check out this tutorial to see if it helped?

http://www.netbeans.org/kb/61/php/installing-and-configuring-required-software.html

And thanks all for the initial positive feedback. I work on the NetBeans IDE, and we will be adding FTP support as well as a list of other improvements (can check out wiki.netbeans.org for future plans). Please pass along feedback- we went with an early access to get the conversation started on how we can make this a first rate tool for PHP developers.