XAMPP 1.7.3, Eclipse PDT & XDebug - Debugging a PHP web page in Eclipse never stops at breakpoints

Question

Dear folks,

My development web server is currently a XAMPP 1.7.3 on my localhost (Win XP).

I just set up my Eclipse 3.6 PDT with XDebug. It works fine, if I debug a file as a "PHP script", but when it comes to debugging it as a "PHP web page", XDebug ignores the breakpoints completely.

Only a manually inserted xdebug_break() inside the code stops the debugger. This isn't very useful, if you want to use conditions with Eclipse's breakpoints.

Here my config:

php.ini:

zend_extension = "C:\xampp\php\ext\php_xdebug.dll"
xdebug.remote_autostart=1
xdebug.remote_enable=1
xdebug.remote_handler=dbgp
xdebug.remote_mode=req
xdebug.remote_host=localhost
xdebug.remote_port=9000
xdebug.remote_idekey="ECLIPSE_DBGP"

phpinfo()

Zend Engine v2.3.0, Copyright (c)
1998-2009 Zend Technologies
    with Xdebug v2.0.6-dev, Copyright (c) 2002-2009, by Derick Rethans

...

xdebug xdebug support   enabled Version
2.0.6-dev

Supported protocols Revision DBGp -
Common DeBuGger Protocol    $Revision:
1.125.2.7 $ GDB - GNU Debugger protocol     $Revision: 1.87.2.1 $ PHP3 -
PHP 3 Debugger protocol     $Revision:
1.22 $

Directive   Local Value Master Value
xdebug.auto_trace   Off Off
xdebug.collect_includes On  On
xdebug.collect_params   0   0
xdebug.collect_return   Off Off
xdebug.collect_vars Off Off
xdebug.default_enable   On  On
xdebug.dump.COOKIE  no value    no value
xdebug.dump.ENV no value    no value
xdebug.dump.FILES   no value    no value
xdebug.dump.GET no value    no value
xdebug.dump.POST    no value    no value
xdebug.dump.REQUEST no value    no value
xdebug.dump.SERVER  no value    no value
xdebug.dump.SESSION no value    no value
xdebug.dump_globals On  On
xdebug.dump_once    On  On
xdebug.dump_undefined   Off Off
xdebug.extended_info    On  On
xdebug.idekey   no value    no value
xdebug.max_nesting_level    100 100
xdebug.profiler_aggregate   Off Off
xdebug.profiler_append  Off Off
xdebug.profiler_enable  Off Off
xdebug.profiler_enable_trigger  Off Off
xdebug.profiler_output_dir  C:\xampp\tmp    C:\xampp\tmp
xdebug.profiler_output_name xdebug_profile.%p   xdebug_profile.%p
xdebug.remote_autostart On  On
xdebug.remote_enable    On  On
xdebug.remote_handler   dbgp    dbgp
xdebug.remote_host  localhost   localhost
xdebug.remote_log   no value    no value
xdebug.remote_mode  req req
xdebug.remote_port  9000    9000
xdebug.show_exception_trace Off Off
xdebug.show_local_vars  Off Off
xdebug.show_mem_delta   Off Off
xdebug.trace_format 0   0
xdebug.trace_options    0   0
xdebug.trace_output_dir C:\xampp\tmp    C:\xampp\tmp
xdebug.trace_output_name    trace.%c    trace.%c
xdebug.var_display_max_children 128 128
xdebug.var_display_max_data 512 512
xdebug.var_display_max_depth    3   3

Does anyone know what I'm doing wrong?

Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

Wrong set path mappings in Eclipse were the problem.

Additional info: Always use the latest version of XDebug from www.xdebug.org, the version in XAMPP (2.0.6) has some bugs where variables were . This got resolved in the current 2.1.0 release.