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:Author: 		lapis
:Date:			Tue, 03 Nov 2009 04:46:19 +0100
:Revision: 		10
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Howto setup a MacBook for PHP development (part 2)
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:Keywords: 
  software, MacOsX, Apache, webserver, PHP, xDebug, command line interface

:Description:
  

:Abstract:
  The second episode of the little tutorial spends some time of installing and
  configuring the PHP Extension xDebug. 


This article is a follow up on the `first part`_ of the 'How to setup an Apache 
websewrver on a MacBook for PHP development` series.
 
.. _first part: 004_Apache.html


Integrating xDebug - easy peasy
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Once the Apache was convinced to execute PHP files I wanted enable xDebug_. 
This beautiful piece of software save me hours of time last year and I don't 
want to miss it anymore. I found a xDebug binary for PHP 5.2 at the Komodo_ 
website, which turnes out to be a reliable source of xDebug binaries for 
every estabished operation system. Just download the needed archive, extract 
it, and copy the xdebug.so file matching your PHP version to a favorized 
location in your hard disk. 
As the standard directory for PHP extensions on Mac Os X is the ::

 /usr/local/php5/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20060613 

directory. I extracted the archive to my 'tmp' directory and copied the 
extracted xdebug.so to this directory.

.. include:: examples/003_consoleXDebug.example
   :literal:

To configure PHP to use xDebug open the php.ini file and append the following 
lines:

.. include:: examples/003.php_ini.conf
   :literal:

I configured the output file for profiling the '/tmp' dir. If you stick to that 
be aware that this directory will be cleaned after a restart. You probably want
to use another location. This for sure is just a basic setup of xDebug for more
information and configuration options see the `xDebug documentation`_.
Restarting the Apache will show the xDebug recognition in the phpinfo.php.

Next Episode
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`Next thing`_ is to install the PHP Extension Archive Repository.

.. _Next thing: 005_pear.html
.. _xDebug: http://xdebug.org
.. _xDebug documentation: http://xdebug.org/docs
.. _Komodo: http://downloads.activestate.com/Komodo/releases/5.1.3/remotedebugging


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