xdebug
Virtualbox image - plug & play Drupal Development and debugging using FOSS
Here's a prebuilt virtualbox environment for development. Works on any platform. I think this is a great way to introduce people to developing Drupal with FOSS tools. if nothing else it provides a debugging environment plug-and-play.
What is it?
its a Virtualbox VDI image (which has a smaller footprint than VMware) using Ubuntu Hardy 8.04.
The the image of course (like VMware) works on any platform, Windows, Mac, *nix. I think anything with a JAVA JRE stack.
The setup includes:
- LAMP - using xampp - for a cleaner / easier interface for noobs, and includes phpmyadmin
JIT debugging with Xdebug
I just posted a quick blog on some hacky ways to enable JIT debugging with Xdebug:
http://www.openkomodo.com/blog/jeffg/jit-php-debugging-komodo
My example is Komodo IDE, but this should be usable for any Xdebug client app. It should be simple enough to enable JIT debugging in a Drupal instance by adding this line to your custom module:
ini_set('xdebug.remote_mode', 'jit');
You should keep in mind that if xdebug.remote_mode is set to JIT, you can't debug in the normal way.
