Using Xdebug & Zend Debugger Simultaneously?

Question

Is it possible to run both debuggers within the same PHP installation simultaneously. They both use different ports so communication with the client IDEs/other apps wouldn't be an issue.

I ask only because using the Zend Debugger with ZendStudio has proven to be much easier (fewer steps to start/stop debugging from the browser), but I really like some of the profiling tools available that only work with XDebug. So in a nutshell, I would love to be able to have the best of both worlds if possible.

Answer 1

It is possible - the simplest way on a development web server would be to run 2 different apache processes with different php.ini files referencing the different debugger modules

Answer 2

http://www.suspekt.org/2008/08/04/xdebug-203-stealth-patch/ (in particular the last comment) seems to indicate that the profiling parts of Xedebug will work fine alongside Zend Debugger, with the patch installed.

Answer 3

So, XDebug is known not to work with many Zend tools (I know Zend Optimizer for certain, I don't know about Zend Debugger but I wouldn't be surprised if XDebug has a built-in check for that).

Since you're running the debugger and profiler on a dev machine, I don't see why you can't maintain two separate ini files. Otherwise, you'll have to compile a custom version of yourself that bypasses the checks.