In my case happen only when depth > 1.

php code:

class child {
public $member = 'some value';

public function method() {
    // do something
}

}

class father {
public $first_member = "foo";
public $second_member = "bar";

public function create() {
    $local = 10;

    $newone = new child();

    $local += 10;

    $this->first_member = "other value"; 
}   

}

$foo = "asdasd";
$bar = "qweqwe";

$obj = new father();

$obj->create();

Put a breakpoint inside father->create, xdebug return only $this variable.

php 5.3 cvs (20080617)
xdebug 2.1.0-dev

I am aware of this, there are some issues with recent optimization patches in PHP 5.3. There is a workaround, but that seems to crash things. I didn't have time to investigate yet.

Tried with 5.3.0beta1 today and it still doesn't work. I'd consider 5.3 stable enough now to fix this. ;) Please!

I have started on fixing this, but didn't manage to finish. Soon :-)

Wohoo! Looking forward to seeing this fixed!

This is a pretty serious blocker for using xdebug with php 5.3.

This should be fixed in 2.0.5 already, it was committed in May.

My mistake, this is only in HEAD (2.1-dev) and not in 2.0.5.