But I get this error when starting Apache:

The requested opperation has failed!

When i change php.ini line:

zend_extension_ts = c:\php5\ext\ZendDebugger.dll

to

zend_extension = c:\php5\ext\ZendDebugger.dll

Apache starts but now when I click Test Debugger in Eclips I get:

A timeout occurred when the debug server attemted to connect….

Im using PDT 2.0 downloaded as a complete package.
PHP 5.1.2 Apache 2.0.55 on win32

Ive double checked the instructions and then double checked again but can’t get past this point. Any ideas? Thanks for your time.

I have managed to get Php debugging working, kind of…
I get the debug info in the phpinfo and I have managed to setup a new project.
The problem I have is that eclipse seems to ignore breakpoints.

I have set to automatically stop at beginning of file in the server config but any other breakpoints are set manually are being ignored.

e.g.: Launch the index.php – Auto breakpoint stops at start.
Stick a breakpoint at the call to Page_Footer() method and it is just ignored.

Anybody encountered this issue?

I get the same error message in my browser. Debugging works fine but the browser stops with this error and does not continue working, though the complete html file content was sent to it. I used a traffic analyser and found two characters (hex code “00”) behind “path=/ where the browser stops interpretating the headers. Anyone an idea what causes this error?

s.w.

CGI Error

The specified CGI application misbehaved by not returning a complete set of HTTP headers. The headers it did return are:

X-Powered-By: PHP/5.2.4
Set-Cookie: ZDEDebuggerPresent=php,phtml,php3; path=/
Set-Cookie: ZendDebuggerCookie=192.168.0.2%2C127.0.0.1%3A10000%3A0||004|77742D65|1033; path=/

If you installed your XAMPP in C:/xampp, open C:/xampp/apache/bin/php.ini and update as below.

[Zend]
;zend_extension_ts = “C:\xampp\php\zendOptimizer\lib\ZendExtensionManager.dll”
;zend_extension_manager.optimizer_ts = “C:\xampp\php\zendOptimizer\lib\Optimizer”
;zend_optimizer.enable_loader = 0
;zend_optimizer.optimization_level=15
;zend_optimizer.license_path =
; Local Variables:
; tab-width: 4
; End:

[XDebug]
; Only Zend OR (!) XDebug
zend_extension_ts=”C:\xampp\php\ext\php_xdebug.dll”
xdebug.remote_enable=true
xdebug.remote_host=127.0.0.1
xdebug.remote_port=9000
;xdebug.remote_handler=dbgp
;xdebug.profiler_enable=1
;xdebug.profiler_output_dir=”C:\xampp\tmp”

Note that you need to disable the Zend Optimizer when the xdebug is enabled or your apache will not start properly
Good Luck

This assumes you have PHP installed and have the php_mysql.dll in your extension directory.

1. Rename eclipse\plugins\org.zend.php.debug.debugger.win32.x86_5.2.10.v20070905\php5\php.ini to something like php.ini.old

2. Copy the contents of your php.ini file from your PHP install into:
eclipse\plugins\org.zend.php.debug.debugger.win32.x86_5.2.10.v20070905\php5.

3. Check to make sure ZenDebugger.dll is in the directory.
4. Then add this line at the bottom of the recently copied ini folder: zend_extension_ts=.\ZendDebugger.dll

Ok, now eclipse will lauch the zend php engine using the settings from your traditional php install—inculding the php_mysql.dll.

eclipse\plugins\org.zend.php.debug.debugger.win32.x86_5.2.10.v20070905

It still doesn’t work though. Anyone got any ideas on how to make this work?

Thanks!

[Zend]
zend_extension_ts = “C:\xampp\php\ext\ZendDebugger.dll”
zend_debugger.allow_hosts=127.0.0.1/32, 192.168.0.0/255.255.0.0
zend_debugger.expose_remotely=always

My problem was that I was not even able to see Zend Debugger info in phpinfo(); output.

I noticed that people were complaining same problem on Zend forums where they did not see Zend Debugger info on phpinfo(). But I did not find an answer how to fix this and I gave up. I had to also enable LDAP support for PHP and after uncommenting

extension=php_ldap.dll

I did not see the LDAP support in phpinfo() output and this made me wary that I am doing something wrong. My simple LDAP test program worked fine from command line but not from webpage.

I was finally able to solve this problem by an accident. This problem is faced by people who use XAMPP to install the bundle of apache, PHP, Perl, MySQL etc.

I did not know that XAMPP keeps several copies of php.ini. One of them was in C:\XAMPP\apache\bin and another was in C:\XAMPP\php. I was making changes to php.ini in C:\XAMPP\php whereas apache web server was loading this file from C:\XAMPP\apache\bin directory. I read couple of places that make sure that you make changes to php.ini file at the location specified in phpinfo() output but due to the being confidant in nature, I was totally blindsided since I thought that I was making changes at the right place. After wasting 4 hours, I was finally able to use Zend Debugger with Eclipse PDT. What a relief it was at the expense of wasting 4 hours.

Vikram

when I last posted here, I was still trying to figure out how to get the debug working.

I managed to finally get it done and it was done by a well written document found at the following link:
http://www.thierryb.net/pdtwiki/index.php?title=Using_PDT_:Installation:_Installing_the_Zend_Debugger

One thing I’d like to mention is that for my apache conf settings, I had configured my documentroot within a VirtualHost definition. I had also defined several Aliases for each website I wanted to access. This was causing problems for me with my remote debugging. Make sure any website you want to debug resides under your documentroot directory.

I managed to solve the issue with the debugger not being able to call mysql_pconnect() functions.

One thing i didn’t realize was that PDT is being setup to call a Plugin library containing PHP4 and PHP5 exe and associated libs within Eclipse.

I had followed the instructions about copying ZendDebugger.dll as stated in this article and defining my php.ini to point to the dll. However, having different versions of the executables and libraries made things messy.

All this to say that i did the following:

1) I went into the Eclipse/plugin folder and looked for the following folder -> org.zend.php.debug.debugger.win32.x86_5.2.6.v20070507

(check your version. I downloaded the “All in one Package” from the Zend website http://zend.com/pdt (I downloaded for my windows version the May 24 08:26 timestamped version)

2)Since i setup my workstation to use PHP5 and MySQL 5, I copied the files from org.zend.php.debug.debugger.win32.x86_5.2.6.v20070507/php5 folder to my actual PHP5 install directory, overwriting my existing files there.

(Please note that i verified my version of the php.exe to be the same as the one defined in the plugins library. Namely, 5.2.2. You can do this by right-clicking your php.exe file and selecting properties and then selecting “version” tab.)

3)in Eclipse preferences under PHP, I made new entries for my PHP executable, pointing to my actual php5 installed folder (f:\php5). I also made sure that my php server pointed to my project url. ie http://localhost/php_project

4)i setup a debug configuration using my newly defined settings and I ran the debug.

I didn’t have any problems after doing this. I hope this has helped you somewhat.

thanks
Leo.

Just in, case keep in mind the following:

My setup:
PHP 5.2.2
MySQL Server version: 5.0.41-community-nt MySQL Community Edition (GPL)
Apache 2.2.4