Comments on: Setting up MAMP Pro with Zend Debugger, Optimizer and Extension Manager

By: SoN9ne

SoN9ne — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 14:32:04 +0000

My setup is as follows:

In your php.ini (use the same method to access it as the tutorial suggests) use this:

[ZendDebugger]
zend_extension=/Applications/MAMP/bin/php/php5.2.17/lib/php/extensions/zend/ZendDebugger.so
zend_debugger.allow_hosts=127.0.0.1
zend_debugger.expose_remotely=always

Just make sure that the ZendDebugger.so is in the location specified and it should work just fine.

You don’t need to worry about the file structure in this tutorial since you are not using Zend Optimizer or the extension manager.

Let me know if this works for you.

By: Amar Desai

Amar Desai — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 03:54:51 +0000

Hi Jermey,

I am new to software development and I’m trying to setup my development environment. I looked at your post, which is very well written, and I still am having some issues. I have downloaded MAMP PRO v.2.0.5 and downloaded ZendDebugger-20110410 from the Zend website. I followed your instructions explicitely and I still don’t have my debugger setup. This post was written a few years ago, and the Zend Optimozer is not longer supported by MAMP PRO. I am not sure if you still support this site, but I wanted to reach out to see if you had any insight on my problems. I hope to hear from you.

Thanks,
~Amar

By: Brendon

Brendon — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 00:04:35 +0000

Thank you

By: Patricia Harrington

Patricia Harrington — Tue, 09 Aug 2011 18:29:29 +0000

Thank you for a very helpful post!

By: Kent

Kent — Tue, 02 Aug 2011 02:47:18 +0000

thank you very much!!!!!!!!!!

By: heidivt73

heidivt73 — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 22:37:26 +0000

Figured out after reading this article why setting up debugging was so difficult… the installation guide provided by Zend has incorrect instructions… It says to set zend_extension instead of zend_extension_manager.debug_server, no wonder it wasn’t working!

By: SoN9ne

SoN9ne — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 16:51:20 +0000

You can hard-code the path like that, I use to do it that way before I learned this method. Typically, the cause of it not working is the sub-folder was not renamed to the proper name (php-5.1.x). I’m glad you got it working.

By: Alex Crookes

Alex Crookes — Sat, 03 Apr 2010 20:26:34 +0000

I had to do some more playing with this

loading the debugger with the extension manager didn’t work, but it does when I use

zend_extension=/Applications/MAMP/bin/php5/zend/lib/ZendDebugger-5.2.26/php-5.2.x/ZendDebugger.so

Of course, you’ll need to replace my path with your own.

By: SoN9ne

SoN9ne — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 22:54:43 +0000

I have played with the eclipse version but find it more troublesome than it is worth. I’ll just stick to Zend Studio v.5.5.1. There is nothing better than it.. although PHP 5.3 and namespaces are a major drawback for it.

As for the different debugger types. It is my understanding that:
cygwin – Is for Windows
darwin – Is for Mac

Then the two Linux installs are for 32 and 64 bit Linux systems.

By: Chordol

Chordol — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 16:33:47 +0000

Jeremy, this is one of the better tutorials I have ever seen plus luck had it that I have the exact same setup as you.

You can imagine my frustration when it didn’t work… until I tried it with darwin version of ZendDebugger. If you have a minute to elaborate why is darwin the right choice for intel based mac book pro, I’d be grateful, or in other words wtf does darwin stand for?

Thank you very much for the time you invested in this post, it filled a big gap in my development environment.

All the best!