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
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
Adding this line (/w the path):
zend_extension="/usr/lib/php5/20060613/xdebug.so" sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart (or sudo apache2ctl restart)
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/
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
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.
Wow! I am going to apply this on my Ubuntu. Thanks guys