Wanted: DBGP (Xdebug) client

Wednesday, October 4th 2006, 23:23 CEST

Skien, Norway

Xdebug is finally nearing version 2 and the only really important thing missing is a good and simple client that can speak the DBGp to interact with Xdebug . As I have no clue myself about GUI programming, I am hereby asking for your help to write a simple GUI application (QT/KDE/GTK/Gnome) that can do this.

This GUI application should be as standalone as possible, run on Linux and implement the full DBGp specification, including setting breakpoints, seeing stack traces, inspecting variables and stepping through code. Editting scripts in the interface should not even be possible.

If you are interested, feel free to write me at either derick@xdebug.org or preferrably through the xdebug-general@lists.xdebug.org mailinglist. I can provide all the help that you need with the protocol.

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Comments

Richard P Thomas

Thursday, October 5th 2006, 01:11 UTC

It would be interesting to see a PHP-GTK2 application for this.

Sean Coates

Thursday, October 5th 2006, 02:50 UTC

I've started this many times. I've got a basic PHP class to interact with DBGp if anyone is interested in that. I also started tinkering with PHP-GTK and DBGp, but I haven't had much chance to actually get anything done.

Let me know if you're interested (this is directed at anyone, not just Derick).

JMF

Thursday, October 5th 2006, 07:08 UTC

PHPEclipse plugin for Eclipse supports XDebug in a developpement build. Maybe it will suit your needs.

Derick

Thursday, October 5th 2006, 07:12 UTC

@JMF: No, I don't want an IDE, there are plenty of those. What I am looking for is a simply debug client without a lot of overhead. Speed is very important, and simplicity as well.

Harry Fuecks

Thursday, October 5th 2006, 07:57 UTC

Sean - if you can dump that class somewhere, may take a shot with wxPython, following from this experiment: http://wxdebug.python-hosting.com/

In theory that would be cross-platform (GTK2 on Linux)

Derick

Thursday, October 5th 2006, 08:01 UTC

@Harry: There is already a python based client (command line) and a set of classes for it. It's available in http://downloads.activestate.com/Komodo/RemoteDebugging/4.0/Linux/Komodo-PythonRemoteDebugging-4.0.0-alpha6-268691-linux-x86.tar.gz

Bertrand Mansion

Thursday, October 5th 2006, 12:09 UTC

Sean, can you post your class somewhere, I'd be interested in having a look at it.

I don't know about Linux, but I already made a GUI with Cocoa for MacOSX. Unfortunately, this was for version 1 and it doesn't work with 2. I stopped development, waiting for the project to get more stable.

I don't know dbgp at all, I will have to learn. I don't care about an IDE neither.

Eventually, you can send me the class to golgote at gmail.com Thanks.

IchBin

Sunday, November 5th 2006, 18:58 UTC

Derick, how about tsWebEditor. Open source at http://tswebeditor.net.tc Tigris.org project http://tswebeditor.net.tc

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