Incredible Zend ZDE debugging trick for debugging CLI apps

Friday, February 11. 2005

Incredible Zend ZDE debugging trick for debugging CLI apps

I was having great difficulty debugging the CLI frontend of PEAR, and decided to ask the friendly folks at Zend if there is a solution that would allow stepping through it using ZDE. Incredibly, there is an ingenious solution that works perfectly.

To quote Nitsan from Zend suport:

First make sure that your ZDE is set to use the server debugger (Tools ->
Preferences -> Debug tab -> select the Server option and enter your web server host name in the "Debug Server URL" field).
On the server machine set the environment variable QUERY_STRING to:
start_debug=1&debug_host=<host name or IP of the local machine>&debug_port=<the port that is configured in your ZDE settings>&debug_stop=1

I.e. setenv QUERY_STRING start_debug=1&debug_host=<host name or IP of the local machine>&debug_port=<the port that is configured in your ZDE settings>&debug_stop=1

[Make sure to fill the appropriate host name and port number. The port number can be found in ZDE->Tools->Preferences->Debug tab->"Client Debug Port" field].

Next, on the client machine open ZDE and open the script file. Click on the
Go/Go to Cursor icons (F5 or Shift+F10 buttons) and the script should be debugged remotely on the server.

I tried this on my Windows XP home system, using PHP 5.0.3 and ZDE 3.5.2 and this command:

C:\> set "QUERY_STRING=start_debug=1&debug_host=192.168.0.102&debug_port=10000&debug_stop=1"

Then, I tried running "pear run-scripts PEAR_Server" and voila, ZDE opened up pearcmd.php and has allowed me to step through it, but I can answer the prompts that will populate php://stdin.

Very cool!

Posted by Greg Beaver in PHP at 19:28 | Comments (7) | Trackback (1)

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Thanks for the tip, very usefull !

#1 Emil Tamas (Homepage) on 2005-02-12 00:11 (Reply)

Oh my god! Why???

))

http://downloads.zend.com/support-files/ZendMozillaToolbar-1.0.2.xpi

Enjoy!

#2 Efim Shuvikov on 2005-03-28 16:36 (Reply)

is there a page that talks about these toolbars?

#2.1 Greg Beaver (Homepage) on 2005-03-28 17:56 (Reply)

And for Firefox:
http://downloads.zend.com/support-files/ZendFirefoxToolbar-1.0.2.xpi

#3 Efim Shuvikov on 2005-03-28 16:37 (Reply)

The link seems to be broken

#3.1 Emil Tamas (Homepage) on 2005-03-28 17:53 (Reply)

later edit, find it here

-> http://downloads.zend.com/studio/MozillaToolbar/

#4 Emil Tamas (Homepage) on 2005-03-28 17:59 (Reply)

No!
In http://downloads.zend.com/studio/MozillaToolbar/ there old version - v0.8

Just open http://downloads.zend.com/support-files/ and you will see latest v1.0.2

Enjoy again =)

#5 Efim Shuvikov on 2005-03-29 08:56 (Reply)

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