I installed mac osx mavericks. Now I find that it replaced php 5.3 with 5.4 (and removed php.ini plus some other files), and I cannot debug php scripts - I think because ZendDebugger.so is only available up to php 5.3.
In Aptana, I get: 'Error launching PHP Script The debug session could not be started. Please make sure that the debugger is properly configured as a php.ini directive'
php.ini does show: ... zend_extension="/usr/lib/php/extensions/ZendDebugger.so" zend_debugger.expose_remotely=always zend_debugger.connector_port=10000 zend_debugger.allow_hosts=127.0.0.1/32,192.168..,10...* ...
And as ZendDebugger.so had been removed by the mavericks installation, I downloaded it(64-bit) from http://www.zend.com/en/company/community/pdt/downloads and tried placing ZendDebugger.so in /usr/lib/php/extensions/
If I do a 'php -v' I get: Failed loading /usr/lib/php/extensions/ZendDebugger.so: dlopen(/usr/lib/php/extensions/ZendDebugger.so, 9): Symbol not found: _output_globals Referenced from: /usr/lib/php/extensions/ZendDebugger.so Expected in: flat namespace
Because ZendDebugger.so does reside there, I think it must be because it is built for php 5.3 This must also be why Aptana is complaining.
So now, without ZendDebugger.so for php 5.4, I am stuck - or so it seems.
Any insights? Have I missed something? Should I try to go back to php 5.3? Is there a Saas php debugger I can switch to?
Any suggestions are appreciated.
Colin G
This thread seems to indicate that zend debugger does not support php5.4 yet. However I'm currently using xdebug with PHP 5.5 and it's working fine. It has all the features of zend debugger, including remote debugging and var dump formatting.
The maintainer has produced a tool which looks at your phpinfo output and produces personalised installation instructions.
Here is a recent tutorial on hooking up Aptana to xdebug.