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Asked: 2026-05-13T12:00:15+00:00

I am using Symfony (1.31) – with Propel ORM to build a website. I

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I am using Symfony (1.31) – with Propel ORM to build a website. I have recently moved from using a text editor, to Netbeans (6.8) as my dev environment.

Coming from a compiled language (C++) background, I am used to setting break points in code etc as part of debugging. Web development I have encountered (atleast with PHP), has been largely hit and miss – well debugging has been messy to say the least, using echo statements, logging stuff to file etc. Well I hear that it is possible to debug PHP (i.e. set breakpoints etc).

I have scoured the net for documentation to show how to set breakpoints (say in one of the MVC layesrs) so that when the relevant page(s) is opened via a browser, the breakpoint will get hit and I can step through the code (ideally, watching the program variables).

Is this possible using Symfony and Netbeans 6.8?.

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    There seems to be support for XDebug: http://netbeans.org/kb/docs/php/debugging.html

    If you have specific questions about configuring XDebug: http://wiki.netbeans.org/HowToConfigureXDebug.

    More useful articles on PHP development in NetBeans: http://netbeans.org/kb/trails/php.html.

    Hope that helps.

    UPDATE: Just installed NetBeans 6.8 and ran through the configuration and was able to get breakpoints to work successfully with XDebug. NetBeans’ integration with Symfony is pretty slick too, +1 to question for getting me to check this out.

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