After downloading Zend Debugger, the default instructions from README will not work – the PHP refuses to load Zend Debugger before Zend Optimiser.
You need to configure Zend Debugger using the same Zend Extension Manager, that Zend Optimiser uses to load itself.
Put the contents of the ZendDebugger-5.2.x-cygwin_nt-i386.zip into C:\xampp\php\zendOptimizer\lib, then rename the “ZendDebugger-5.2.x-cygwin_nt-i386″ folder to “Debugger”. Next rename the 4_3_x_comp, 5_2_x_comp, etc. folders to php-4.3.x, php-5.2.x etc. (look in ..\Optimizer directory for reference). Each …\lib\Debugger\php-X.X.x dir contains ZendDebugger.dll.
Next edit C:\xampp\php\php.ini (or C:\xampp\apache\bin\php.ini – check your phpinfo() to see which one your PHP is using) [Zend] section. The critical option is “zend_extension_manager.debug_server_ts” which points to the directory containing php-X.X.x debugger dll directories. Following content will do:
[Zend]
zend_extension_ts = "C:\xampp\php\zendOptimizer\lib\ZendExtensionManager.dll"
zend_extension_manager.verbose=On
zend_extension_manager.optimizer_ts = "C:\xampp\php\zendOptimizer\lib\Optimizer"
zend_optimizer.enable_loader = 0
zend_optimizer.optimization_level=15
;zend_optimizer.license_path =
zend_extension_manager.debug_server_ts = "C:\xampp\php\zendOptimizer\lib\Debugger"
zend_debugger.expose_remotely=allowed_hosts
zend_debugger.allow_hosts=127.0.0.1/24,192.168.0.0/16
zend_debugger.allow_tunnel=127.0.0.1/32
Next restart Apache, open http://localhost/xampp/phpinfo.php and look whether the Zend Debugger is enabled.
Good luck.
Wow, how the heck did you find out to do that?
Thanks for the tip, I would have never figured that out…
A LOT of googling, merged info from several sources, aplied error messages from logs and some thinking and it finally worked.
But no – it’s not documented anywhere (except this post now). ;-)
Thanks for your manual. But I don’t get it running (“Could not establish connection”). :(
Which configuration do you have in Zend? These are I have: http://www.speedupload.eu/bild.php/70,zendeinstellungenOBLMD.jpg
I don’t know a way to check whats wrong. Are there some log files? xampp/apache/logs/error.log doesn’t include messages about this.
If you do not see any errors, this means that Apache configuration is correct.
Unfortunately I use Eclipse PDT and Zend Debugger just works there – I didn’t have to configure anything (just selected that I am using Zend Debugger).
Thank you for the great tips. I did update my php.ini in apache\bin\ directory. I was wondering if I was supose to update the 2 php.ini and php5.ini in xampp\php as well ?
Thank you
You may if you use the standalone/CGI PHP binaries. The Apache SAPI PHP module uses the php.ini in apache\bin directory. You may check it yourself with phpinfo() function.
Thanks for this tip but I can’t to run this configuration out. If I use ZendExtensionManager, debugger library doesn’t appear in info page like it was not loaded. I’ve written down just this lines in my php.ini file:
[Zend]
zend_extension_ts = “D:\xampp\php\zendOptimizer\lib\ZendExtensionManager.dll”
zend_extension_manager.verbose=On
;zend_extension_manager.optimizer_ts = “D:\xampp\php\zendOptimizer\lib\Optimizer”
zend_optimizer.enable_loader = 0
zend_optimizer.optimization_level=15
;zend_optimizer.license_path =
; Local Variables:
; tab-width: 4
; End:
;20090612 javier zend debugger
;zend_extension_ts=”D:\xampp\php\zendOptimizer\lib\Debugger\ZendDebugger.dll”
zend_extension_manager.debug_server_ts = “D:\xampp\php\zendOptimizer\lib\Debugger\ZendDebugger.dll”
zend_debugger.expose_remotely=allowed_hosts
zend_debugger.allow_hosts=127.0.0.1/24,10.104.6.177/200,169.254.214.222/248
;;zend_debugger.expose_remotely=always
zend_debugger.allow_tunnel=127.0.0.1/32
;zend_debugger.connector_port=10001
Any idea about?
Thanks
Have you checked that your PHP is using the php.ini you’re editing?
I was scratching my head lately after upgrade to the newest XAMPP release and it turned out they changed the Apache module php.ini location to \XAMPP\php\php.ini
This solution works great!!! thanks a lot!!!