Xdebug is full of awesome
by Robert Basic on January 30th, 2012
I'm currently trying to fix a Mockery bug and, while deep in the code, I came across a piece of code which gets eval'd. Mainly to understand better what's going on, I wanted to step debug it. I first set a breakpoint before the eval call and then tried to step into the eval'd code, but that didn't work out, Netbeans just moves along to the next line.
What *did* work, is setting a xdebug_break() call inside of the code that will be eval'd - and BAM! it works! Netbeans picks up the signal and everything works just as with regular code - you can view the values of the variables, step in, step out and step over code.
Xdebug is full of awesome.
Happy hackin'!