How to "step into" code with xdebug & netbeans

Yii 1.1 General Discussion
1

Hi,

I have setup xdebug on my server and its workings with netbeans on my ubuntu box.

However when I run it I can only step through the index.php file.

It does not show me steps inside a controller file.

I have also put break points in the controller files but I can never get there.

Any ideas?

Keyvan

2

Shift+F5 = Start Debug

F8 = Step Over (I think this is your case)

F7 = Step Into (What you need)

Ctrl+F7 = Step Out

F4 = Run To Cursor

I hope this helps you.

Regards from Colombia.

Ricardo

3

It is possible that some error occures before your controller code is executed. Try to debug through yii’s code to find where execution breaks.

4

Try to disable Ajax validation.

5

Good day.

I have the same problem as described in the first post.

I think the problem is not with Ajax checks.

Raised the topic that describes the problem:

http://www.yiiframework.com/forum/index.php?/topic/14968-how-to-make-a-breakpoint-in-my-controller/

6

I think that there are some XDebug issues caused by this issue, I can see that (presumably for efficiency reasons) there are lots of ‘non braced if statements’ i.e.

LN 132: framework/db/CDbCommand.php



	public function setText($value)


	{


		if($this->_connection->tablePrefix!==null && $value!='')


			$this->_text=preg_replace('/{{(.*?)}}/',$this->_connection->tablePrefix.'\1',$value);


		else


			$this->_text=$value;


		$this->cancel();


		return $this;


	}

XDebug seems to have problems stepping into these, Derick Rethans (Author of Xdebug) suggests that ‘un braced’ code cannot be stepped into as the bytecode will lack the required EXT_STMT opcode at the appropriate location.

Please see the post below for more details…

http://www.xdebug.org/archives/xdebug-general/1822.html

7

Hi kevan,

This is more of a Netbeans-XDebug problem, because I have encountered this problem first with a non-Yii (actually, non-frameworked) codes in my Ubuntu 10. Googling around, I fixed the problem by downloading the suitable xdebug driver based on my phpinfo (this is a very cool tool), and followed the steps that was given there. I restarted apache and tested the debugging with breakpoints, and it worked.

If I’m not mistaken, it all boils down to the xdebug driver and your php.ini configuration. I did the same thing with my XAMPP-Yii-Netbeans setup in my Windows XP, and worked like a charm.

8

Hi,

I have XDebug installed with Netbeans on a Wamp platform and can step into code without problems. However I can’t see any attributes within my object models. Is this expected behaviour when model attributes are private - or have I perhaps not got XDebug set up correctly?

I can see my Objects under the Variables tab and they look expandable, but nothing happens when I click the ‘+’ to try to expand them.

Has anyone managed to see object contents successfully?