Values not showing up during debugging in eclipse PDT

Question

I am trying to debug this simplepie.inc (called from index.php )which is dumping me with error during parsing one of the feed.

After stepping through the line $utf8_data = 'UTF-8'; which I hardcoded in to test things out, the value of the variable remains <Uninitialized> as shown in the screenshot below.

Why is that so?

Variables and values are showing up nicely if I am stepping through the debug in index.php thou.

Answer 1

There is an existing bug in the 2.0.x branch of XDebug with PHP 5.3 which prevents local variables from being visible. I would recommend updating/building either the latest version from SVN, or using a recent 2.1.x release, even if in RC/Beta status.

More information available here: http://www.eclipse.org/forums/index.php?t=tree&th=158396