Tigerfish: Debugging Drupal 6 with XDebug, Ubuntu 10.4 and Eclipse PDT: step-by-step
Debugging is incredibly powerful, but setting it up for Drupal in Eclipse can be a pain. How about a step-by-step?
Coming from a .NET background, I love the Visual Studio debugger. I can stop code execution at any time and look at the values of any of the variables. There's none of this dumping huge arrays to the web page and examining the output. I've wanted to set up a debugger for Drupal with Eclipse for a long time now, and setup instructions vary wildly. Here's my take on it.
You will need: