I'm looking for a PHP profiler that works with Zend Server (CE). From what I can tell, XDebug is a pain to setup with Zend Server. While Zend Debugger is free (as I understand it), the Profiler is only on Zend Studio.
Any other options?
I wish I could will you Zend Studio, as the profiler component is quite nice.
XDebug (standalone tip) may be your only option, unfortunately.
Do you have the option of upgrading to Zend Server 5 Professional edition? The Code Tracing feature would help you in profiling. Or, have you looked at PQP or DBG for Eclipse?
I wish I could be more help. The company I work for uses Zend Server for all deployments and the engineers all have Zend Studio.
Good luck.
A late answer, but might still be handy for those who find this question via searching (like I did).
I have Zend Server CE and PHPStorm on a Windows configuration and also wanted to profile some pages. It turned out that since a while it is just built-in in PHPStorm! With the explanation on this page: http://devnet.jetbrains.net/thread/432088 it was a breeze to get it up and running.
PHPStorm is not free (it is for individuals that do open source development) but its prices are absolutely affordable and are paid back for within days looking at the increasement in productivity.
You should consider the Semantic Designs PHP Profiler.
Doesn't require XDEBUG to be installed. Doesn't require any special configuration of your server. Works with huge PHP applications.
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We have a very large enterprise Web application developed using Mojave (MVC) framework in PHP.
Continuous development is still going on. There is an extensive use of AJAX throughout the system.
Debugging an issue is a nightmare currently.
I am wondering if this environment would help in debugging. Or are there any better tools?
Local Development environment:
WAMP
Windows 64
Eclipse PDT with XDebug (Recently installed)
MySQL.
Can we debug Ajax-heavy PHP web applications using XDebug?
Can I setup this project in Eclipse? (Import? Or just open the webroot of the application?)?
Are there any other better tools?
Xdebug doesn't support javascript itself, but you can use the browser extensions (that I've just pointed to in your other question) to start a debugging session when you want it (ie, an ajax-ui action): http://xdebug.org/docs/remote#browser-extensions
cheers,
Derick
I'm looking for a "SINGLE INSTALLER" solution for PHP Development.
Is there anything out there which will give me a nice IDE, Web Server, Debugger, Database, etc, on a single install image (*.msi or *.exe)?
This of course would be completely opposite of Eclipse PDT, which requires you to search and locate a bunch of additional components which never quite work together.
I think you should go for a separate install for server (web, database) and one for development (IDE, debug) -> Zend or PHPed ?
I think the question is: Does there need to be a true all-in-one solution? I think not.
I agree it's bothersome to have to put dozens of pieces together, but I find a combination of XAMPP, the IDE of my choice, and a few additional bells and whistles (like Polystyle for source code formatting) totally flexible, and not too much work to install.
I don't know if you'll find all of what you're looking for in one package for Windows, but you can get it narrowed down to about two...
XAMPP for Windows comes with: Apache, MySQL, PHP + PEAR, Perl, mod_php, mod_perl, mod_ssl, OpenSSL, phpMyAdmin, Webalizer, Mercury Mail Transport System for Win32 and NetWare Systems v3.32, Ming, JpGraph, FileZilla FTP Server, mcrypt, eAccelerator, SQLite, and WEB-DAV + mod_auth_mysql.
Then you just need an editor with a debugger, which there are many choices, mostly non-free, such as NuSphere's PhpEd - or free - such as Eclipse PDT or gVim+XDebug+DBGp client.
True one-in-all - not yet. Maybe someone reading this will upload a version.
My tip would be:
XAMPP and Netbeans (The PHP bundle).
2 clicks to install.
3 clicks if you don't have java installed already.
Netbeans is a nice IDE for PHP, too. I use it all the time and I'm much more satisfied with than with Eclipse PDT. It comes in one neat bundle, that you can just install and use right away.
Just download the PHP bundle here
As for a web server, I can recommend XAMPP or Zend Server. They are both easy to install and do a good job. XAMPP has MySQL on board while Zend Server has some really cool optimization features for great performance.
Should it be a requirement that your development environment is easy to install? You're a developer so, you should be able to install and configure a set of (more powerful) tools that suit your specific needs.
You'll only install your bundled IDE once (every so often) so that feature no longer is of benefit when you're developing your projects. It's more likely to become a hindrance as you struggle to configure your environment.
Take a look at Komodo IDE also.
If you're on windows you can get a WAMP package for web,php,database. For IDE I do like Zend Studio 5.5. Not their latest interation based off of PDT. 5.5 has a nice debugger and a built-in web browser that you can view output. The interface is pretty fast, running your code through the debugger/browser is slower than on a real webserver, but ofcourse you get the nice perks of breaking,inspecting your code. The only drawback is that Zend Studio 5.5 is not supported anymore and the highest PHP version that works with it is 5.2.13.
Currently though I have a Virtualbox Ubuntu Server image that mirrors my production enviroment, except it has Samba installed so I can easily copy files back and forth.
I have inherited a moderately large PHP codebase. In order to better understand how it works, I'd like to be able to print to logs a function or file trace whenever I hit a page, so I can correlate pages with source code. Are there any tools I can install? I have root on the server, and so have the ability to install anything as far as Apache or PHP add-ons goes.
I have heard about XDebug, but when reading up on installation, I've discovered that it is not compatible with Zend Optimizer. Unfortunately, this codebase requires Zend Optimizer, so XDebug does not appear to be an option for me at this time.
I'm developing under Linux.
Pisto,
running such tools would probably degrade the performance of your webserver anyway so you shouldn't do that on your production server. So I would advice you to copy the code on a different server disable Zend Optimizer and use Xdebug there.
Zend also provide their own debugging extension Zend debugger may be it work with the Zend optimizer.
Is it possible to run both debuggers within the same PHP installation simultaneously. They both use different ports so communication with the client IDEs/other apps wouldn't be an issue.
I ask only because using the Zend Debugger with ZendStudio has proven to be much easier (fewer steps to start/stop debugging from the browser), but I really like some of the profiling tools available that only work with XDebug. So in a nutshell, I would love to be able to have the best of both worlds if possible.
http://www.suspekt.org/2008/08/04/xdebug-203-stealth-patch/ (in particular the last comment) seems to indicate that the profiling parts of Xedebug will work fine alongside Zend Debugger, with the patch installed.
It is possible - the simplest way on a development web server would be to run 2 different apache processes with different php.ini files referencing the different debugger modules
So, XDebug is known not to work with many Zend tools (I know Zend Optimizer for certain, I don't know about Zend Debugger but I wouldn't be surprised if XDebug has a built-in check for that).
Since you're running the debugger and profiler on a dev machine, I don't see why you can't maintain two separate ini files. Otherwise, you'll have to compile a custom version of yourself that bypasses the checks.
I have Slackware 12.1 and wish to try out Eclipse for PHP/HTML/JavaScript development. However, it seems I'm facing myriad of possible options and I'd hate to miss the best thing and give up on Eclipse (I'm currently using Geany, but I'm missing some stuff like , for example, auto-complete for JavaScript)
I'm currently looking into just installing All-in-one PDT package version 1.0.3 from here:
http://www.eclipse.org/pdt/downloads/
However, that seems to be Eclipse 3.3. There's also Slackware package for 3.4 here:
http://repository.slacky.eu/slackware-12.1/development/eclipse/3.4/
But it says it a "Classic" version. I'm not sure how hard would be to add PHP, HTML, JavaScript support for it.
Note: I don't plan to run PHP through Eclipse's integrated web server or anything like that. I just want a powerful editor.
P.S. Also, recommendations for something better than Eclipse that is for Linux and free are also welcome. I already used Kate, SciTE, Geany, Emacs, Vi and Bluefish, so those are not interesting.
Important: whatever you recommend, please explain reasons why. Don't rush to be the fastest gun in the west, as I'll downvote such answers that only say "use this"
I second Aptana wholeheartedly. Since it is based very closely off of Eclipse, if you ever decide to do coding that Aptana will not cover, you are still used to the general interface of Eclipse.
I don't want to say it is cut down, because it is not. It just has what you need for the languages and technologies you will be using it for. You can still add other plugins to it as well for SVN, CVS, etc. The interface is a bit less crowded as well.
I don't do a whole lot of javascript coding, but man, that is where is stands out from the crowd. It does a fantastic job with Javascript.
Also, you don't have to use Aptana's built in Jetty server to run PHP; you can just tell it where you local Apache server is.
If you want auto-complete for JavaScript, in that case you should to use some plug-in for Eclipse such as Aptana Studio, but Aptana is more than auto-compete tool for javascript, it has included a lot of unnecessary things that you don't need for regular development.
I have the same problem to find the right solution for JavaScript in Eclipse, Aptana was ok, but I hate the additional features that Aptana includes, I didn't find any good tool which could be added to Eclipse, for JavaScript :( For script languages such as JSP, Eclipse is like a song...nice,sweet and smooth...;)
I would recommend to use Eclipse 3.3 with PHP Development Tools. The All-in-one package should work fine. The great thing about using Eclipse as a PHP IDE is that you have great integration for Zend Debugger/XDebug and you can use common Eclipse Extensions like Mylyn or Subclipse also for PHP.
Eclipse 3.4 isn't useful for PHP Development at the moment because the final version of PDT 2.0 got delayed.
You could also take a look at Aptana or the current Netbeans 6.5 Milestone which both support PHP. Until PDT 2.0 they both provide better JavaScript Support than the current Eclipse 3.3 based PDT. Aptana is also based upon Eclipse.
I'm still using Eclipse 3.3.2 and PDT 1.0.3, and I'm pretty happy with it. I tried upgrading to Eclipse 3.4, using a few recent builds of PDT 2.0, but it was buggy. It would hang for a long time in certain situations (like when I was copying text in a PHP editor). And it would keep re-parsing all my code every time I re-launched Eclipse, which took forever. These issues will probably get fixed eventually, but I'd hold on unless you really want Eclipse 3.4.
Aptana is a good choice, dedicated Eclipse clone for web development.
I personally use Krusader's editor, which is crippled version of Kate (KWrite). Fast, nice code highlight, and many useful shortcuts (like Ctrl+D to comment selection language wise).
Javascript with PDT Eclipse and the plugin jseclipse makes all your problems go away! :)
With jseclipse the regular "Goto function with F3 keyboard press" works.