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| ID | Project | Category | View Status | Date Submitted | Last Update |
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| 0001561 | Xdebug | Documentation | public | 2018-07-01 01:03 | 2018-07-09 10:37 |
| Reporter | David536 | Assigned To | derick | ||
| Priority | normal | Severity | major | Reproducibility | always |
| Status | resolved | Resolution | no change required | ||
| Platform | Windows 10 | OS | Windows 10 | OS Version | Windows 10 |
| Product Version | 2.6.0 | ||||
| Summary | 0001561: What do I do now? | ||||
| Description | I love the phpinfo-based installation instructions. But what do I do now? Where is the list of debugger commands, if any? Specifically, my PHP program is looping. How do I interrupt the loop to examine where it is looping? | ||||
| Steps To Reproduce | Download and install php_xdebug-2.6.0-7.0-vc14.dll in the ext folder. Now what to do? Documentation doesn't seem to help. | ||||
| Additional Information | I've been programming in PHP for many years, but could use some help in debugging, particularly when the program loops forever. PHP/7.0.30 | ||||
| Tags | No tags attached. | ||||
| Operating System | Windows 10 | ||||
| PHP Version | 7.0.25-7.0.29 | ||||
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In general, you need an IDE to interact with Xdebug to debug. PhpStorm will give you the best results. As this bug tracker is not a support forum, I'd like to point you to: |
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The public XDebug descriptions should be changed to make it clear that it is not a stand-alone debugger, so people don't waste their time with it. I've looked into PHPStorm in the past, and it costs way too much for our nonprofit charity to afford. My workaround is to continue my own tool development. Yesterday I wrote a function to add the PHP Backtrace in clear, readable form to my general logging function. I understand that a bug reporting tool is not a forum for support. You really need to improve your external descriptions of XDebug so people will understand its surprising limitations. Just my opinion. |
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Literally the first thing on the website (https://xdebug.org/): "About Xdebug is an extension for PHP to assist with debugging and development. It contains a single step debugger to use with IDEs;"… |
| Date Modified | Username | Field | Change |
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| 2018-07-01 01:03 | David536 | New Issue | |
| 2018-07-09 08:35 | derick | Note Added: 0004678 | |
| 2018-07-09 08:35 | derick | Status | new => resolved |
| 2018-07-09 08:35 | derick | Resolution | open => no change required |
| 2018-07-09 08:35 | derick | Assigned To | => derick |
| 2018-07-09 10:30 | David536 | Note Added: 0004679 | |
| 2018-07-09 10:37 | derick | Note Added: 0004680 |
