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Posted by resplin on July 10, 2012 at 3:00pm

Thank you for letting me lurk on this list for the past year.

I do most of my work in Vim, but use Eclipse plus XDebug when I need to step through code. Unfortunately, I find it to be very fragile. XDebug doesn't like symlinks, and Eclipse's ability to stop at breakpoints disappears if I update anything in my toolchain. I recently broke my environment again, and haven't figured out how to get it functional.

What better options are there?

From the reviews I have read, the Zend debugger doesn't appear any more reliable. Do any of you use it?

Is Netbeans more dependable?

Does anyone use Komodo's IDE?

Thank you,

Richard

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I can give a +1 for Komodo

Posted by j_ten_man on July 10, 2012 at 3:12pm
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I can give a +1 for Komodo IDE. I use it and love it. Debugging works flawlessly. That's to be expected from a paid product though. I've never done any work with free options for debugging so can't comment on those.

Great info

Posted by resplin on July 10, 2012 at 3:28pm
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Thank you for the testimonial. I'm currently leaning towards Kimodo, and your experience will help me convince my company to pay for it.

Anyone else willing to share what they do for a debugging environment?

NetBeans

Posted by eighthourlunch on July 10, 2012 at 3:50pm
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I'm a huge fan of NetBeans. The debugging great, and it integrates really well with my source control (Mercurial).

Netbeans for me

Posted by sher1 on July 10, 2012 at 10:48pm
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I also use and really like netbeans. It has been solid. I have heard many good things about Komodo but the paid one is the only one that integrates with versioning systems

Reporting back: I'm using NetBeans

Posted by resplin on October 3, 2012 at 6:30pm
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Sorry to resurrect an old thread.

After upgrading Eclipse made my problems worse, I finally gave NetBeans a shot. It was very easy to get configured for Drupal development. I have used it for a while now and it has been reliable for debugging. The jVi plugin is also very nice.

I looked briefly at Codelobster, and it looks like a decent PHP-specific development environment. But I prefer tools that will support the range of languages I regularly use. I'm glad to know about it, so thank you for the suggestion.

If the portion of my time that goes to development goes up again, I'll probably evaluate Komodo. But for now NetBeans seems to be great.

Thank you for the advice.