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Good Free PHP debugger?

Answer 1

+4 A:

xdebug should do the trick: http://xdebug.org/

kristofer 2009-09-29 18:53:35

just be aware that it's good to combine xdebug witha good IDE that helps you step through the code!

tharkun 2009-09-29 19:00:11

Komodo works nicely with XDebug.

Alex 2009-09-29 19:12:06

Answer 2

+2 A:

FirePHP is pretty neat too: http://www.firephp.org/

lod3n 2009-09-29 18:54:58

Answer 3

+1 A:

var_dump(); //especially with xdebug installed

Alan Storm 2009-09-29 18:58:11

Answer 4

+2 A:

Aptana IDE has very good debugging tools and it easily integrates with Xdebug! NetBeans also has a good debugger!

tharkun 2009-09-29 18:58:31

Answer 5

+20 A:

Pascal MARTIN 2009-09-29 19:01:22

very nice post! and I advocate Aptana IDE + Xdebug over Eclipse PDT + Xdebug :)

tharkun 2009-09-29 19:20:00

I am myself using Aptana as a plugin into PDT, to edit CSS/JS/HTML ; but for PHP, I still use PDT -- have never seen a reason to switch to Aptana for PHP specifically, actually.

Pascal MARTIN 2009-09-29 19:21:35

You can use it with Netbeans too. Any editor really.

WebDevHobo 2010-06-14 23:30:35

Answer 6

A:

I was using Zend Debugger with Zend Studio a while back (when Zend Studio was not acting a fool) and it worked great. The added bonus was the Firefox toolbar that allowed to customize the interaction. Very nicely integrated.

Miha Hribar 2009-09-29 19:19:23

Answer 7

A:

Netbeans WOULD be the best, but its got some honery inability to debug some sources which coexist in directories below index.php

Alistair 2009-10-30 06:45:39

Answer 8

+2 A:

I've setup a PHP debugging with both eclipse and phpstorm. phpstorm + xdebug was by far easier to setup.

http://www.jetbrains.com/phpstorm/index.html

rxn 2010-06-14 23:19:39

My current setup, as well. I moved over to phpstorm + xdebug from Aptana.

Mike Munroe 2010-10-11 15:34:54

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