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Finally getting my way into using a proper development environment for Joomla. I went through the doc on getting Eclipse to work with Joomla - setting ports, editing php.ini, everything in that doc - but the problem is that even with XDebug set up (with the PHP in xampp) it doesn't recognize break points.

There's some communication going on as when I refresh the web page in the browser, it causes a little activity in eclipse. But it completes without stopping at break points, showing no information on variables.

Any ideas on where to look at?

You sure you're hitting the breakpoint?

I would suggest starting with a small test file first (a simple loop or something). Once you've established PHP debugging, then move on to debugging Joomla.

Ian

Yes, I tried the small test file first. And no, it doesn't stop at the breakpoint. I even have the option set where it breaks on the first line of code, but it still doesn't stop.

hmmm... I wonder if you have your path map setup right?

Ian

Dear Ian,
I have the same problem presented by carrotwax. Could you, please, explain with more details what you mean saying "I wonder if you have your path map setup right".

I followed exactly what is presented in http://docs.joomla.org/Setting_up_your_ ... evelopment but Breakpoints are not working (neither the Eclipse option "Break at First Line").

Thanks a lot,
Andrea

Dear Ian and carrotwax,
with few minutes work I solved the issue downloading from:
http://www.xdebug.org/download.php

a recent version for xdebug (I got "php_xdebug-2.0.5-5.2-nts.dll" file) and updating XAMPP PHP extensions with it as described in:
http://robsnotebook.com/php_debugger_pdt_xdebug

Ciao, Andrea