Tag Archives: eclipse

July 31, 2011

Command line debugging

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Jason
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7:10 pm
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I've been working for a while on a command line PHP script that doesn't use the webserver. The main problem I experienced was the inability of Eclipse/PDT to successfully launch a command line debugging session. This was because the PHP config that was loaded didn't include most of the modules that I required (the first to error was MySQL). Well, I needed to get work done so I soldiered on with "classic" debugging, adding a debug mode that controlled several aspects of the execution of the ... read more

March 11, 2010

Trying Netbeans

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Jason
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12:15 pm
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First off, my IDE of choice for the last few years has been Eclipse with the PDT (PHP Development Tools) plugin. It has served me well and on several platforms too - currently on Windows 7 but for about a year my work box was running Ubuntu - ahh the good times.  Anyway, back to the point. After trying lots of PHP dev tools, I stumbled across the PDT project and decided to try it out.  Never really looked back. The other day, after a bit of a conversation on Twitter, I was prompted to ... read more