On Sat, 15 Apr 2006, Jared Phelps wrote:
First and foremost, AMAZING work on this extension and the DBGp
protocol Derick. All hail.
You're welcome :)
I'm writing a PHP IDE using XDebug and the DBGp protocol.
Might I inquire which IDE this is, and whether it will be open/free?
I have the basic start, stop, and set breakpoints working, and am
currently implementing a "watch window" feature. I just can't seem to
get the behavior I'm looking for. I get the feeling that "eval" is a
bit better suited to the functionality of a watch window (since in
some IDEs you can do things like $x = 1 via watch). But that only
sends me back a property address. Then I can't get at the property
contents because I don't have a long name to ask for, only the
address.
eval is basically a one-shot call without any state... so you can only
use it to get basic return types. eval isn't meant for retrieving
variables or data. You should use property_get/property_value for that.
So given the code below, I set the breakpoint at the line "$y = 7".
<?php
$z = new Test();
$x = 3;
$y = 7;
class Test
{
var $y = 2,$x = 3;
}
?>
How can I get the value of $z, and all its children? In the debug
client, property_value gives me this:
<response command="property_value" transaction_id="jared"
type="object" children="1" classname="test"
numchildren="2"></response>
Useful stuff, but how would I get the rest of the children?
This was a bug which I fixed 2 or 3 days ago. This bug would prevent
from any children of an object to show up.
(http://bugs.activestate.com/show_bug.cgi?id=45484)
Similarly, how would I do function calls, assignments, and so-on with
"watch window like" functionality? The dbgp documentation is pretty
good, but a little lacking on these points. Sorry if it's in there
and I missed it somehow.
You'll have to clarify this a bit better, as I'm not sure what you're
trying to do here.
regards,
Derick
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