xdebug

As PHP 5.3 is marching towards the final release, Eclipse PDT's next version needs to support its new features.

Two major additions to PHP 5.3 are namespaces and bundling the Phar extension.

Especially used in combination, libraries could/should be distributed like Jars in the Java world.

On the local.ch blog today, there's this new post (from Philipp Kelle) showing how to, with the help of geben, easily debug your applications from emacs.

Stefan Esser has released a patch, pulled originally from the Suhosin project's functionality, that allows you to use a bit of stealth for run the Zend Debugger and XDebug at the same time.

The IBM developerWorks website has a new tutorial (login required) showing how to use the Eclipse PDT functionality to debug scripts your PHP development.

Software company BlueStatic will be releasing their native Mac debugger, MacGDBp tomorrow (June 18th) to the community.

Here's more information from their press release:

Joakim has let us know about the recent updates that have been made to the WebGrind web-based frontend for XDebug.

Posted to his blog, Dave Marshall has a tip that uses declare and a trick or two to check out the memory usage of your scripts.

The latest episode of the php|architect P3 podcast has been posted today - the Newscast for May 15th, 2008.

Topics mentioned in this episode include:

Popular posts from PHPDeveloper.org for the past week:

• IBM developerWorks: The future of PHP
• SitePoint PHP Blog: A PHP Guy's Look At Python
• Derick Rethans' Blog: Xdebug finally in Debian
• Site News: Popular Posts for the Week of 05.09.2008
• Internet Super Hero: PDO_MYSQLND 1.0.2-alpha released

Since a few days, there is a new package in Debian: php5-xdebug.

After a few years of talking licenses, due to the help of Martin Meredith and François Marier Xdebug can finally be installed with apt-get.

See the synaptic screen shot as well: