Question

I just downloaded and installed Prestashop, which is a PHP e-commerce system.
I also downloaded and installed XAMPP and Aptana , an open source IDE for PHP development. It uses MVC of some sort. (Sorry, I am completely new to PHP).
It looks ok, I can access the site and the changes I perform in Aptana are reflected in my localhost website.
Now I would like to debug the execution, Aptana has an built-in debugger and it works for a test example I downloaded from the internet (here). It works.
But when I try to set the breakpoint in the Prestashop project, it does not suspend the execution. Also, when I click on a link, the debugger stops.

I really have no idea how to set it up. Do you have any experience in debugging PHP? How can I set it up? I would be fine to change the IDE, if it helped me debugging this system.

Thanks,
Oscar

Answer 1

Prestashop has some good debug code built in already.

In config/config.inc.php change the define for _PS_DEBUG_SQL_ to true (you can also turn error reporting on in here) and in config/defines.inc.php set the define for _PS_MODE_DEV_ to true also.