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

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!

By: nigeljh

nigeljh — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 14:53:24 +0000

thanks for the fantastic article ; i am now up and running finally !!

a quick question though, regarding eclipse if you use it …. eclipse always puts localhost in the domain string when i try to preview/debug, and it doesnt work … if i replace this using my mamp pro local url, then its ok … sure it must be a config somewhere, but damned if i can find it !!