Xdebug is full of awesome

on January 30, 2012. in Development, Programming. A 1 minute read.

I’m currently trying to fix a Mockery bug and, while deep in the code, I came across a piece of code which gets eval’d. Mainly to understand better what’s going on, I wanted to step debug it. I first set a breakpoint before the eval call and then tried to step into the eval’d code, but that didn’t work out, Netbeans just moves along to the next line.

What did work, is setting a xdebug_break() call inside of the code that will be eval’d - and BAM! it works! Netbeans picks up the signal and everything works just as with regular code - you can view the values of the variables, step in, step out and step over code.

Xdebug is full of awesome.

Happy hackin’!

Tags: debugging, xdebug.