Using macports python with eclipse install#

Having no access to the actual PHP call from inside Eclipse I tried to go down the environment route, but that did not lead to any success. ini files” was empty when PHP ran inside Eclipse, but was properly set when PHP ran from command line (or in an Apache context).Īsking aunt Google brought up () that shed some light into my darkness: The directory where additional modules reside is configured as a compile time option in PHP and defaults to `/opt/local/var/db/php5` on MacPorts and exactly this can be overridden by either calling PHP with `-n -c` options or by setting the `PHP_INI_SCAN_DIR` environment variable. Looking at the output of `phpinfo()` from my test script and `php -i` from command line showed me the difference: The PHP option “Scan this dir for additional. Under “PHP > PHP Executables” I therefor selected `/opt/local/bin/php` as my CLI version and selected “xdebug” as debugging option.Ī first test however showed me that the execution of a test script did not load any module into the PHP interpreter beforehand (for reasons I could only guess, because Eclipse error log kept quite).

With Xdebug v2.1.1, Copyright (c) 2002-2011, by Derick RethansĮclipse Indigo and Eclipse PDT 3 was already installed, so I thought it should be easy to set up the XDebug debugging option in Eclipse. Zend Engine v2.3.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2011 Zend Technologies

After that `php -v` greeted me friendly on the command line already:

Using macports python with eclipse install#

To debug PHP you usually install the excellent () and so did I with the port command `sudo port install php5-xdebug`. You know the times, when things should really go fast and easy, but you fall from one nightmare into another? Tonight was such a night… but lets start from the beginning.