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Debugging

Hello everyone!

 

As a long time user of PhpED, I'm now using PhpStorm - and find it to be a super product

 

But - after 6 months - I'm still not able to have the debugger up and running - and of that reason - I'm still using the php debugger in phpED.
But running two frameworks like this is silly.


Here is the setting:

 

Working from windows 7 – and using cvs (ssh) module in PhpStorm to access source code on the remote server.
The server is a linux server – running apache.

 

Development etc – using the cvs is working perfect.

 

But – to be able to debug – sett breakpoints etc – I have the PhpED – using WebDrive (also using ssh) – keeping a “local” folder for PhpEd to work from.

 

I was able to see the PhpStorm debugger in action – when I test run the PhpStorm – using the same WebDrive folder – and a ssh tunnel from the server to my pc.

 

BTW: I have a script running on the server – getting all “new” code from cvs and deploy into the debug server automatically for me!

 

So after committing via cvs module in PhpStorm - the server sees the new code and auto deploys to the test web server.

 

But – I would like to use only the cvs (via ssh) –and not WebDrive – and be able to use the debugger functionality in PhpStorm ?

 

Is this possible??

 

 

I also needs to be able to start debugger from php using something similar to PhpEd’s  : “DebugBreak('1@localhost');”

 

 

Next - 80% of my work is now javascript (extjs) - and still not been able to se the debugger in PhpStorm in action for my Javascript code

 

 

There I'm using the debugger in FF and Illuminations.

 

 

Thank you for your help.

Tags: debug, javascript, remote, debugger, cvs, phpstorm
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Mar 8, 2013 7:54 PM in response to: fremme
Re: Debugging

Well - after reading my own message - and looking into what's coming for v6 - I found a page giving me a hint on how to remotely debug javascrips.

 

And yes - it's now working

 

Now it's only how to enable remote debug of my php files - when I don't have a direct access to them - only using the cvs module in PhpStorm ?

 

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Mar 8, 2013 8:09 PM in response to: fremme
Re: Debugging

What do you mean "do not have direct access" exactly?

 

You need to have local copy of files in order to use debugger.

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Mar 8, 2013 8:44 PM in response to: Andriy Bazanov
Re: Debugging

I mean that I normally don't have a local folder mirroring the folders on the server on my pc.

 

I only use the cvs module (in PhpStorm) to transfer php/files modules to/from the server from the editor.

 

Sed that - I could use the same folder as I'm using today from PhpED.
This folder (mapped into local drive) dos mirror the folderstructure on the server - using WebDrive.
I hopen to get rid of this WebDrive mapped drive, but if only solution - i will continue to us it.
But I don't want to use this to edit files on the server - as they will be overwritten by others also using cvs.
I do have a script that automaticly updates this folders on the server - from cvs - when something is changed in cvs repository.

 

Debugging from PhpED is using this mapped local drive as a repository - used only for debugging - not editing.

 

So - the question is maybee - could PhpStorm use cvs for editing files (using update/commit) and local drive mapped by WebDrive - for only debugging?

 

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Mar 8, 2013 8:49 PM in response to: fremme
Re: Debugging

You are using CVS, so you DO have local copy of files, right (otherwise, what do you edit then)?

 

If yes -- then why do you need MappedDrive one ??

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Mar 8, 2013 11:02 PM in response to: Andriy Bazanov
Re: Debugging

Yes - there is a copy of the files on my local drive - as a buffer for the cvs - sure

but I can not run the scripts from there - they have to be on the server ..
To many dependables - like database etc etc.

 

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Mar 8, 2013 11:09 PM in response to: fremme
Re: Debugging

Did I mentioned anywhere about runing them? I assume you do not know how remote debugging works (in general, not PHP only).

 

Original file is required so the IDE can show you what line is currently debugged; so it can "navigate" to next line; "jump over" function call;  so you can control where to put breakpoints etc etc. Everything gets executed on the server; nothing runs locally in case of remote debug.

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Mar 8, 2013 11:30 PM in response to: Andriy Bazanov
Re: Debugging

Ok, but I misunderstood you here - as I then was referring to make a new debug configuration - and that one was misleading me to make a local setting and not a remote setting.

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Mar 8, 2013 10:13 PM in response to: fremme
Re: Debugging

In any case: some good articles / documentation can be found here and in blog. In particular:

 

If you have problems with settings this up -- you will need to provide some more information, like: that remote server -- is it on LAN or on Internet; is debugger engine (xdebug/zend debugger) properly configured on server etc etc.

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Mar 8, 2013 11:38 PM in response to: Andriy Bazanov
Re: Debugging

Thank you for coming back to me !

 

Well - I now have everything working - by using the locally mapped drive for debugging.

 

In "Run/Debug Configuration" - "PHPUnit on Server" -> Server: I hade to make a "server" that under "Upload/download project files" was sett to the localy mapped drive to the folder on server. ??

I could probably use a sftp type server - and not the "Local or mounted folder" type as the one I'm now using ??

 

 

 

 

Settings -> PHP -> Servers   Host is set to localhost, port to 9000 and Debugger = Xdebug

Made a ssh tunnel on port 9000 to localhost from/to server

 

In Run/Debug Configurations:

Made a new setting under "PHPUnit on Server"

  and there using the Servers configured above under the Remote tab - and the local cvs cache directory in Configuration tab - Directory.

 

 

Then installed the Xdebug plugin to Firefox - and sett up the Xdebuger on the server.

 

I'm now able to sett a Breakpoint in the editor - and the debugger is working - nicely 

 

But - enabling the Xdebuger is slowing down the whole server ?
The apache is running some 50 VirtualHosts - and ALL of them are slower by 10 times - even when nothing is in debug modus .

 

[xdebug]
zend_extension=/usr/lib/php5/20090626/xdebug.so
xdebug.remote_enable = 1
xdebug.remote_host   = "127.0.0.1"
xdebug.remote_port   = 9000
xdebug.remote_handler= dbgp
xdebug.idekey           = "PHPSTORM"
xdebug.profiler_enable=0

 

Is this right - do Xdebug really slow down the whole server that mutch ?

 

I therefore needed to disable the Xdebuger again - and enable the debugger from PhpEd again - as that one is not slowing down the server.

 

Tried to enable the Xedebugger from .htaccess only for this test virtualHost by :

php_value  zend_extension "/usr/lib/php5/20090626/xdebug.so"
php_flag   xdebug.remote_enable on
php_value  xdebug.remote_port 9000
php_value  xdebug.idekey PHPSTORM
php_value  xdebug.remote_handler dbgp
php_value  xdebug.remote_host "127.0.0.1"

 

But that is not working.
I not hade time to really dig into why, but it could the ssh tunneling - that is not really working when the server is not listening on the port 9000 the whole time.

 

regards

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Mar 8, 2013 11:38 PM in response to: fremme
Re: Debugging

Cannot comment much on this -- never debugged on busy/production server this way + never worked via ssh/xdebug proxy -- always on test server and always directly.

 

Therefore: the only real idea that I have right now -- make sure that xdebug.remote_autostart = 0, otherwise xdebug will try to debug every single request. You may also try to get rid of xdebug.idekey -- should work without it (it should be passed via cookie from browser extension)

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Mar 8, 2013 11:43 PM in response to: Andriy Bazanov
Re: Debugging

Thank you again!

 

Well the server is only a developer/test server, but bussy :-)

 

The debug.remote_autostart = 0 is a interesting one - will look into that one !!!

 

Again - thank you for all your help - and will continue testing tomorrow

 

regards

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