PHP Debugging with Zend Studio

By Michael J. Ross
2008-02-03


Overview and Product Editions
During its early history, Zend Studio was built upon a platform developed in-house by the Zend staff. Their newest version, however, is now built upon Eclipse, the increasingly popular open source platform. In addition, Zend Studio for Eclipse uses the PHP Development Tools (PDT) framework. Zend continues to publish and support the non-Eclipse line, which is now at version 5.5.1.

Even though the Eclipse line is the future direction of the product, in this tutorial we will focus on version 5.5.1, because 5.x is the version set probably being used by most readers of this tutorial.

Like so many other software products nowadays, Zend Studio comes in two editions: Standard and Professional. The Standard edition has a full source code editor (supporting both PHP 4 and 5), as well as an interactive debugger for working with local PHP scripts. The Professional edition provides a number of capabilities beyond editing and debugging: remote debugging, code analysis and optimization, source management, version control, and many others.

Tutorial Pages:
» Introduction
» Overview and Product Editions
» System Requirements
» Installation and Start Up
» User Interface and Preferences
» Debugging Basics
» Stepping Through the Code
» Breakpoints and Conditions
» Conclusion

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