Installing Zend Debugger on Wamp/Windows 7

Question

I got the latest XAMPP package and extracted it at c:\\tools php.exe -v gives following output

C:\tools\xampp\php>php.exe -v
PHP 5.3.5 (cli) (built: Jan  6 2011 17:54:09)
Copyright (c) 1997-2010 The PHP Group
Zend Engine v2.3.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2010 Zend Technologies

Eclipse PDT, I am using, has this version

Eclipse for PHP Developers
Version: Helios Service Release 2
Build id: 20110218-0911

Then I added ZendDebugger to eclipse from http://downloads.zend.com/pdt , so it created folder C:\\tools\\eclipse-php-helios-SR2-win32\\plugins\\org.zend.php.debug.debugger.win32.x86_5.3.18.v20100905\\resources\\php53 I modified php.ini { found in c:\\tools\\xampp\\php } to setup ZendDebugger.dll

But no matter what I do, I am not able to debug my php web applications. I get this error when I do "Test Debugger" from Eclipse A timeout occured when the debug server attempted to connect to the following client hosts/IPs: -127.0.0.1 Then I came across this old post Installing Zend Debugger on Wamp/Windows Vista . Do I need to go back to old versions of php in order for zend debugger to work with Eclipse?

regards, Yogesh

Answer 1

xdebug is working in my case - so this should not be a problem related to php5.3 and xdebug.

For this I'd check the following things:

• Is xdebug installed and enabled? (call phpinfo() to get more informations) If you can't find any informations xdebug is not installed.
• Does xdebug stop the script if you call the php-function xdebug_break(); ?
• xdebug needs a cookie to be activated. Is this cookie set by eclipse? Just try var_dump($_COOKIE)
• Do you have this behaviour also if you try another environment? For example netbeans or phpstorm?

If the function xdebug_break() works but the script does not stop at breakpoints set in the IDE - I'd check if the dll-file for xdebug is included as zend_extension or extension. Xdebug has to be included as zend_extension for it has to be started before the parser of php is started!

Here's a good link to explain every step in it's detais. It's related to the IDE Komodo - but the installation of xdebug is the same: http://docs.activestate.com/komodo/5.0/debugphp.html

Bye Simon