[UPHPU] VS.PHP as an IDE

[John Finlay]

> Ken Snyder wrote:
> > ...
> >
> > 1. Debugging
> > - Zend was quite tricky to set up and didn't work on some setups
> > - Eclipse has no debugging
> > ...
> I should clarify--Eclipse does have a plugin that works with DBG
> Debugger, but we could never get it to work.  I got the feeling that it
> is dependent on platform and PHP version.
> 

For Eclipse, I have just started using the XDebug plugin for debugging and I think it works very well.  A pretty good article that describes how to set it up can be found here:
http://www.starbowconsulting.com/blog/tao/setting-eclipse-pdt-and-xdebug

I found that other PHP debuggers slowed everything down so that it was nearly impossible to debug large sites.  But XDebug is hardly noticeable.  The other thing that I have been using XDebug for is its profiling capabilities.  When you are trying to get more speed out of your app, XDebug's profiling tools are extremely helpful.

--John