This page describes how efficiently debugging TYPO3. If you need a PHP editor / IDE, please refer to Comparison of PHP Editors for TYPO3 development.
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- Just download and install the Zend Zerver CE.
- After that log into the Zend Server CE Admin Interface under http://<yourhost>:10081 and make sure the Zend Debugger is turned on under "Server Setup / Components".
- Insert your clients' PC/Mac IP or an IP range into the "zend_debugger.allow_hosts" and "zend_debugger.allow_tunnel" fields.
- Set "zend_debugger.expose_remotely" to 2.
- Click on the "Restart PHP" button in the lower right corner of the dialogue.
- Add an empty "dummy.php" file to the web-root of each of your TYPO3 projects (where index.php resides) and make it writeable.
- I add it when initializing a new TYPO3 project so its getting deployed on the webservers automatically. Be sure to have it in
each projects' web root on the webserver.
- Back in Zend Studio go to "Preferences" and under "PHP/Debug/PHP Debugger:" choose "Zend Debugger".
- click on "configure" right of it and choose "Zend Debugger" in the list.
- In the "Zend Debugger seetings" dialogue check the upper checkbox.
- Leave the ports to default (Debug Port: 10137, Broadcast Port: 20080) and insert the IP of the machine running Zend Server CE under "Client Host/IP".
- You can leave the dummy file name to "dummy.php".
- Go Back to "PHP/Debug" and configure a "PHP Server".
- Under "Server" choose the Base URL , the URL you can reach your project on the webserver. I leave the "local Web Root" blank and configure a path mapping:
- Be sure to set the "path mapping" right, so you get a connection between the path to your projects web root on the machine running Zend Server CE and your local projects' web root.
- In "Zend Server" sheet you can enable Zend Server integration and check "use default url" and insert your Admin interface password under "Authentification" .
- Under "Tunneling" check "enable" and "Automatically connect on startup".
- Back in "PHP/Debug" choose your PHP executable and check "Enable CLI Debug".
- I also choose "break on first line".
- As final step you have to define a "Debug configuration". With these configurations you can define different entry points (php-files) within your project.
- For TYPO3 Frontend debugging i choose the "index.php" and for Backend debugging i choose "typo3/backend.php".
- For defining Debug configurations leave the preferences and click on the down-arrow next to the Bug icon in the upper taskbar.
- In the "Debug configurations" dialogue click on the "PHP Web Application" treenode on the left and hit the "New" button above the tree view.
- In the "Server" sheet on the right select "Zend Debugger" as "Server Debugger" and your pre-configured "PHP-Server".
- You can now hit "Test debugger" and it should prompt you with a "Success" message. If you get a timeout error message, be sure that the ip of "Client Host/IP" is right.
- You can also try to restart Zend Studio and your Zend Server CE apache component and try "Test debugging" again.
- In the "File" section you have to point to the entry file on your local machine where debugging should start. You can go there with the "Browse" button.
- Under "URL" I uncheck the "Auto generate" checkbox and add "/index.php" or "/backend.php" .
- TIPP: You can also debug any frontend page at this point by adding i.e. "/index.php?id=<yourPID>" in this field !!
- In the sheet "Advanced" make sure you check "Open in browser" and "Debug all pages".
- Under "Source location" choose "Local copy if ...".
- You can enable Javascript debugging under the corresponding sheet.
- Under "Common" sheet make sure "Allocate console" and "Launch in background" is checked.
- After hitting "Apply" you can either start debugging with this configuration hitting the "Debug" button or close this dialogue and choose the configuration by hitting the down-arrow besides the bug icon again.
- Before you debug, you should set breakpoints just above the point in the code where you have an error/strange behavior.
You can then step through the performed PHP actions in the auto-opening debug view -> see Zend Studio documentation for it.
Assumption: You run XAMPP with PHP 5.2.2 in C:xampp
64 bit Notice: XDebug has problems on 64bit systems. Version working well on 64bit Win7 with php 5.2.2 is [XDebug 2.0.0].
For this setup, download the linked .dll file and place it in C:xamppphpext
Open your php.ini file in C:xamppphpphp.ini (Make sure this is the actually used file, older versions of XAMPP used c:xamppapachebinphp.ini) At the very bottom of that file, comment everything in the Zend section so it is not used anymore. Enter this information in the XDebug section
[XDebug] zend_extension_ts="C:\xampp\php\ext\php_xdebug-2.0.0-5.2.2.dll" xdebug.remote_enable=true xdebug.remote_host=127.0.0.1 xdebug.remote_port=9000 xdebug.remote_handler=dbgp xdebug.show_local_vars = 1
and in case you want to use wincachegrind for profiling (warning this is slow and generates huge amounts of data):
xdebug.profiler_enable=1 xdebug.profiler_output_dir="C:\xampp\tmp"
(Personally I prefer XHProf for profiling but it does not come in a windows version right now.)
Restart your Apache server, visit a page with phpinfo() and check if there is a section on XDebug. If there isn't check your filenames and locations and if you edit the correct php.ini file.
- Click Run -> Debug Configurations
- Select "PHP Web Page" and click the icon for "New launch configuration"
- In the "Server" tab, select Server Debugger "XDebug"
- for the file, browse to your Typo3 index.php
- Leave URL on auto generate and choose break at first line as you like it.
- Click debug and you are running a debugger.
Regarding the correct paths: Assuming you have your Eclipse Workspace in c:web and a typo3 project named www in C:webwww with your Apache document root in your workspace directory c:web. (This means you can get to your Typo3 website on http://localhost/www [not available anymore])... You will have to choose the following as debug configuration:
- File: /www/index.php
- Leave URL to auto generate which will use http://localhost/ [not available anymore] in the left part and /www/index.php in the right one.
Some notes:
- You can choose a different default browser (e.g. Firefox) by pressing "Window -> Web Browser"
- You can set Breakpoints by double-clicking in the left border of the editor window (where TODO or FIXME marks are shown)
- Sometimes, the debug session does not stop any more, then you simply have to end the web launch and start it again.
- When debugging Cron Scripts, you can select the debug configuration "PHP Script" using the executable at c:xamppphpphp.exe
- Install xdebug as explained before.
- In the project listing of NetBeans, right-click on the project which you want to debug, and open "Properties". This opens the Project Properties dialog.
- Then, modify the "Run Configuration" as follows:
- Run as: Local web site
- Project URL: [Base URL to your TYPO3 instance], like http://localhost/typo3/ [not available anymore]
- Index File: (leave blank)
- Arguments: (leave blank)
- Now click on "Advanced", and set the "Debug URL" to "Ask Every Time".
- That's basically it :-)
To use debugging, do the following:
- Set a breakpoint inside the project you just set up, and click debug in the main toolbar.
- Now, a popup opens where you can enter the URL of the website which should be called. Enter the URL which triggers the desired functionality.
- Your browser opens and starts loading. Now, go back to NetBeans, and see that it is waiting on a break point for your attention :-)
- Happy debugging!
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