Turns out enabling Xdebug on Ubuntu for Eclipse PDT is easier than doing the same on Windows.
The short version is installing the module as per this tutorial – http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=525257
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sudo apt-get install php5-dev php-pear
sudo pecl install xdebug
sudo updatedb
locate xdebug (this one finds the xdebug path)
sudo gedit /etc/php/apache2/php.ini
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Adding this line (/w the path):
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zend_extension=”/usr/lib/php5/20060613/xdebug.so”
sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart (or sudo apache2ctl restart)
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This install the xDebug and enables it.
Then we need to add a few more lines of code in /etc/php5/apache2/php.ini (as in here):
http://holisticsecurity.wordpress.com/2011/07/04/php-xdebug-xampp-win32/
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xdebug.auto_trace = 0
xdebug.collect_includes = 1
xdebug.collect_params = 0
xdebug.collect_return = 0
xdebug.collect_vars = “Off”
xdebug.default_enable = “On”
xdebug.dump.COOKIE = “”
xdebug.dump.FILES = “”
xdebug.dump.GET = “”
xdebug.dump.POST = “”
xdebug.dump.REQUEST = “”
xdebug.dump.SERVER = “”
xdebug.dump.SESSION = “”
xdebug.dump_globals = 1
xdebug.dump_once = 1
xdebug.dump_undefined = 0
xdebug.extended_info = 1
xdebug.file_link_format = “”
xdebug.idekey = “”
xdebug.manual_url = “http://www.php.net”
xdebug.max_nesting_level = 100
xdebug.overload_var_dump = 1
xdebug.profiler_append = 0
xdebug.profiler_enable = 0
xdebug.profiler_enable_trigger = 1
xdebug.profiler_output_dir = “/tmp”
xdebug.profiler_output_name = “xdebug_profile.%R::%u”
; xdebug.remote_autostart
; Type: boolean, Default value: 0
; Normally you need to use a specific HTTP GET/POST variable to start remote debugging (see Remote
; Debugging). When this setting is set to ‘On’ Xdebug will always attempt to start a remote debugging
; session and try to connect to a client, even if the GET/POST/COOKIE variable was not present.
xdebug.remote_autostart = 1
; xdebug.remote_enable
; Type: boolean, Default value: 0
; This switch controls whether Xdebug should try to contact a debug client which is listening on the
; host and port as set with the settings xdebug.remote_host and xdebug.remote_port. If a connection
; can not be established the script will just continue as if this setting was Off.
xdebug.remote_enable = 1
xdebug.remote_handler = “dbgp”
xdebug.remote_host = “localhost”
xdebug.remote_log = “none”
xdebug.remote_mode = “req”
xdebug.remote_port = 9000
xdebug.show_exception_trace = 0
xdebug.show_local_vars = 0
xdebug.show_mem_delta = 0
xdebug.trace_format = 0
xdebug.trace_options = 0
xdebug.trace_output_dir = “/tmp”
xdebug.trace_output_name = “trace.%c”
xdebug.var_display_max_children = 128
xdebug.var_display_max_data = 512
xdebug.var_display_max_depth = 3
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Then create an Eclipse project, click the Debug Configurations
Create a website configuration, select Xdebug, set the paths for the index.php and configure project names; set the web server as well so that this could run smoothly.
Run the project in Debug perspective.
Edit: A great resource for step-by-step setup with screenshots by Wptuts+ – here.
