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Ganymede / PHPEclipse - not a good choice for debugging CakePHP

Friday, November 14th, 2008

After hours of trying I finally conclude that CakePHP cannot be debugged in Eclipse 3.4.1 (Ganymede) and PHPEclipse 1.2.1.200810130444PRD (XDebug).

My webroot is set to app/webroot and Eclipse stops on a breakpoint only if it’s in app/webroot/index.php
Even after it stops there it won’t stop on a next breakpoint that is set in my controller.

The only working solution I found is downgrading to Eclipse 3.3.2 (Europa) and PDT 1.0.3.v20080603. Fortunately both can run side by side so in theory, I can write new code in Ganymede and debug in Europa but that sucks. Programming is a constant debugging.

I could try to switch from XDebug to DBG. Maybe I will next time I have a day that I can waste.

Update:

New PDT 2.0.0.v20081030-1802 works with Ganymede/XDebug just fine. It also has features I have been missing like Mark Occurrences - one more reason for switching. It doesn’t have support for chm help files though (PHPEclipse does) and is generally slower than PHPEclipse.

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Great tool for sharing pieces of code

Wednesday, September 26th, 2007

Ever needed to send someone a piece of code in an e-mail to illustrate your thinking?

Pastebin does just that. You paste your code, choose what language you use to get the right syntax highlighting and post it.

Then your colleague makes his changes and posts them back. With one click you can see his version, your version and the difference, just like in this example:

http://pastebin.com/pastebin.php?diff=f3bd4dcb6

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