0000514: being able to set a "watch" on a variable modification

ID	Project	Category	View Status	Date Submitted	Last Update
0000514	Xdebug	Step Debugging	public	2010-01-05 13:45	2020-03-12 16:51

Reporter	lsmith	Assigned To
Priority	normal	Severity	minor	Reproducibility	have not tried
Status	resolved	Resolution	won't fix
Product Version	2.0.0dev

Summary	0000514: being able to set a "watch" on a variable modification
Description	I would like to see support in IDE's for triggering a break point based on modification of a specific variable/class property.
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Operating System
PHP Version	5.3.2

mixologic 2014-04-01 05:43 reporter ~0002778	Is this still valid? I see this: watch expression break on write of the variable or address defined by the expression argument in the documentation here: http://xdebug.org/docs-dbgp.php#breakpoints Though I see this in the code: XDEBUG_ERROR_BREAKPOINT_TYPE_NOT_SUPPORTED Are break on Variable changes supported?

derick 2016-12-11 14:23 administrator ~0003990	In PHP, this would mean watching a specific memory location, and that can not be done in a safe way.