Fully featured debugger

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hellbrandt
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Fully featured debugger

Post by hellbrandt »

Firstly, I have to say that Webuilder is an excellent product - I have used it previously to develop a couple of sites... but I now use Nusphere phped because it has much more sophisticated debugging features (unless I am missing something beyond the xdebug feature). For example, it is possible to watch a range of variables, be able to view all variables at any point, drill down into post, get, session or user created arrays... these are features I find essential to debugging complex web applications.

Now I really want to get back to Webuilder - it has much better support for CSS, HTML and Javascript than phped, which is a specialised PHP tool. For this to happen I would need to see a debugger with features similar to those currently offered by phped. Is this planned at any point? Unless it is then I'm afraid I will have to stick with phped.

Whether or not it is planned, keep up the good work, this is a product that deserves to do well.
mwb1100
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Re: Fully featured debugger

Post by mwb1100 »

I agree that it would be very nice, and the logical progression of debugging support, to add things like a watch window, stack trace window, expression evaluation window, etc.

The most important of these would be a windows to watch (and modify) variable values. Using a mouse-over tooltip is OK for the occasional variable inspection, but there really needs to be something a bit more industrial strength.

Are there any plans along this line?
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