[TYPO3-dev] debug TYPO3 with Eclipse PDT

[Tomi Hrovatin]

Hi all,

For the past few days I also tried to configure Eclipse & PDT & Zend Debug.
And here is my experience.

My system:
win vista (please don't comment),
latest wampp (apache 2.2.4, php 5.2.4, ...)
Eclipse Europa 3.3.0 with PDT (all in one package)
Subclipse
Zend debugger

My current setup:
My workspace dir is set in htdocs/workspace directory.
My typo3 dir is set in htdocs/typo3
In empty workspace I imported/checkouted extension from typo3xdev 
(htdocs/workspace/my_extension)
I symlinked it to /htdocs/typo3/typo3conf/ext/my_extension (this is the 
only positive thing in win vista)
Now I had a working typo3 site.
Because the extension in SVN already had .project file (that didn't have 
some directives for debugger, code completion, php project, ...) I had 
to manualy add them.
I restarted the eclipse and manually rebuilded the project.
Then I added PHP include Path (/htdocs/typo3) to the project.

Now I:
- can set a breakpoint in every typo3 core file
- can point and click to go to declaration (this is not working everywhere)
- cannot set a breakpoint in my_extension

I also tried Zend firefox extension (2.0.1) but it doesn't work at all. 
(I just installed it and set external browser in eclipse. Is there some 
other configuration I should know?)

Well, this is all I could get from Eclipse till now.

If you have any comments or maybe you are willing to share your 
configuration, please do so. I'm sure a lot of developers will 
appreciate it.

It would also be very valuable if we had some sort of 'best practice' on 
how to use Eclipse (or any other editor/tool) and Typo3.

regards,
Tomi Hrovatin



Daniel Pötzinger wrote:
> Joerg Schoppet schrieb:
>> Steffen Kamper wrote:
>>> Hi Joerg,
>>>
>>> "Joerg Schoppet" <joerg at schoppet.de> schrieb im Newsbeitrag 
>>> news:mailman.1.1192622893.1446.typo3-dev at lists.netfielders.de...
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> actually I have eclipse 3.3 (Europa) running with PDT 1.0 under 
>>>> windows XP.
>>>>
>>>> I have a remote server with fedora, where the TYPO3 is installed.
>>>>
>>>> To have easy access to the system a samba-share is provided for the
>>>> htdocs-directory (mapped to drive Z).
>>>>
>>>> In eclipse, I've set my workspace to Z:\htdocs\typo3conf\ext, so I can
>>>> create a project for each extension.
>>>>
>>>> For debugging I've installed the Zend Debugger on the webserver. 
>>>> *BUT* I
>>>> can only start debugging from the main index.php site. All other
>>>> breakpoints (e.g. within an extension) are ignored.
>>>>
>>>> Can somebody point me to the right direction, how to debug a
>>>> typo3-extension within eclipse?
>>>>
>>> i started a thread with exact the same issue some months ago. I was 
>>> not able to debug with Zend. When i debugged from index.php, the zend 
>>> debugger run into Nirvana.
>>>
>>> The problem may be also the lot of warnings when doing so.
>>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> well debugging from index.php is working for me, also with zend
>> debugger. But it is very time consuming to click down all the typo3-code
>> until I came to the extension I want to debug e.g. tt_news.
>>
>> The only possibility I see actuall is to set the workspace above the
>> htdocs directory (in my example Z:), then I can make htdocs a project
>> within eclipse and then all breakpoints work, *but* then I can not use
>> subclipse (I have actually for each own extension an own repository) to
>> manage each extension independently. :-(
> 
> Maybe it works by symlink them into your project?