--- In firebird-php@yahoogroups.com, Lester Caine <lester@l...> wrote:

> Steve Harp wrote:
>
> > I'm new to PHP and would like to find an IDE with a good debugger.
> > I'm developing on XP Pro using PHP5 & Apache 2. I would appreciate
> > any recommendations.
>
> Another zero cost solution is PHPEclipse.
> A bit heavier to install, but as an IDE that can handle almost anything
> you want to throw at it, Eclipse offers editors for most file formats,
> and the PHP plug-in just works the same way.
> http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/index.php
> http://www.phpeclipse.de/tiki-view_articles.php
>
> Debugging is still a little weak, but it's just as easy to drop print
> statements in where you are trying to track problems. So while I

'had to

> have a working debugger' when I was switching, now I don't normally

need

> to set it up ;)
>

I looked at Eclipse and couldn't figure out how to make it work with
PHP (or anything else). I'm not really interested in no/low cost
options necessarily. I'd be happy to pay up to about $500 or so if I
could get the best tool out there. Hell, my Delphi IDE runs me more
that $1,000 at every upgrade. The Debugging capability is of
paramount importance to me. My experience has taught me that GOD made
debuggers.

Steve