NetBeans for PHP

Nice. Thanks. I look forward to seeing how to configure NetBeans to use Xdebug.

For those who are too lazy to type out the code...

<?php
$address = '127.0.0.1';
$port = 9000;
$sock = socket_create(AF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, 0);
socket_bind($sock, $address, $port) or die('Unable to bind');
socket_listen($sock);
$client = socket_accept($sock);
echo "connection established: $client";
socket_close($client);
socket_close($sock);
?>

Posted by Courtney Miles on July 16, 2008 at 02:19 AM CEST #

at the first i apologize for my English writing
my problem is when i start to debugging, my IE want to connect to netbeans javascript debugger web page and in the bottom of my ide show "waiting for connection (netbeans-xdebug)" and its never end.
whats the problem?

Posted by reza on September 11, 2008 at 09:18 AM CEST #

I have just installed NetBeans for PHP, after some less than ideal experience with PHPEdit.

I have not been able to debug anything however:
The debug process is said to be "waiting for connection (netbeans-xdebug)" and 'its never end' for me also.

Yet PHPEdit is using XDebug mostly without issue on port 9000.

Additionaly if I use your code above and enter the URL http://localhost/xdebug_test.php?XDEBUG_SESSION_START=mysession
In IE I get http 500 internal server error, In firefox just blank output - any comments welcome.

Windows xp sp2
Netbeans (Build 200804221056)
Java: 1.6.0_07; Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM 10.0-b23
apache 2.2.6
php: 5.5.5
xdebug php_xdebug-2.0.2-5.2.5.dll

phpinfor reports:
This program makes use of the Zend Scripting Language Engine:
Zend Engine v2.2.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2007 Zend Technologies
with Xdebug v2.0.2, Copyright (c) 2002-2007, by Derick Rethans

Posted by Andrew Seabrook on September 22, 2008 at 02:05 PM CEST #

I run into some problems with config xdebug for using with netbeans. The solution was to remove every 'extension=xdebug.so' from php.ini and load xdebug with 'zend_extension=/compleate/phat/to/xdebug.so'. After that, in the output of phpinfo() ther should not stand 'XDEBUG NOT LOADED AS ZEND EXTENSION'.
Maybe this is helping some other to.

Posted by Sam on October 30, 2008 at 10:40 AM CET #

Hi Petr, I run into problem with the xdebug for my PHP5 and Netbeans 6.5. I have followed all the instruction that I could find on the net such as download xdebug v2.0.3...put it in the ext folder under PHP dir...change the php.ini...with no help. When I check my php version on command line using php -v, it says i have Zend Engine v2.2.0 ...with Xdebug v2.0.3. I also had fatal error when trying to run your above code. The error was "Call to undefine function socket_create()". Do you have any idea?
Thank you

Posted by Tuyen Truong on December 04, 2008 at 03:39 AM CET #

Hi Petr,
Thank you for your answer. The machine I use has win Vista. I search the PHP init file and I don't think I have Zend debugger. If this is not the right place to search for it, please show me how.
I register xdebugger by adding in the init file these lines:
zend_extension_ts="C:\ext\php_xdebug-2.0.5-5.2.5.dll"
xdebug.remote_enable=1
xdebug.remote_handler=dbgp
xdebug.remote_host=localhost
xdebug.remote_port=9000

I am new to Netbeans so please bear with me if my question or answer make no sense to you.
Thank you.

Posted by Tuyen Truong on December 11, 2008 at 12:13 AM CET #

Sorry, the PHP version number is 5.2.5, of course.

Posted by Anatoli Strigin on December 11, 2008 at 12:49 AM CET #

Sorry, Petr, for the long answer delay.
The answer is: no, it is not. It is a simple script embedded in the usual html tags.
script:
$m=5;
$n=10;
$sum_of_factorials = calculate_sum_of_factorials ($m, $n);
echo "The sum of factorials of the entered integers is " . $sum_of_factorials;

function calculate_sum_of_factorials ($argument1, $argument2) {
$factorial1 = calculate_factorial ($argument1);
$factorial2 = calculate_factorial ($argument2);
$result = calculate_sum ($factorial1, $factorial2);
return $result;
}

function calculate_factorial ($argument) {
$factorial_result = 1;
for ($i=1; $i<=$argument; $i++) {
$factorial_result = $factorial_result*$i;
}
return $factorial_result;
}

function calculate_sum ($argument1, $argument2) {
return $argument1 + $argument2;
}
This is the only file in the project (a test, as it were).

Posted by Anatoli Strigin on January 06, 2009 at 10:35 PM CET #

I thought I was a competent *nix admin but I have no idea what Radek means by "socket -s 9000"!

Anyway, I still haven't resolved my issue but for those who would like a little more feedback than the originally posted code I offer this small enhancement:

<?php
$address = '127.0.0.1';
$port = 9000;
$sock = socket_create(AF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, 0);
socket_bind($sock, $address, $port) or die('Error: ' . socket_strerror(socket_last_error()));
socket_listen($sock);
$client = socket_accept($sock);
echo "connection established: $client";
socket_close($client);
socket_close($sock);
?>

BTW, my error is "Address already in use" but netstat shows nothing listening on 9000 locally. Hmmm...

Posted by Bill on April 04, 2009 at 10:54 PM CEST #

I'm having the same problems as Antony and others... can't connect to the debugger. The dbgtest.php scripts times out. But I do see the coloured var_dump()'s...

Posted by Leon Bogaert on July 15, 2009 at 03:52 PM CEST #

Hi all,
I've worked out what is happening...

i) as a new user to NetBeans, I didn't realise that "Stop at First Line" is defaulted to Yes, and appears in Options:PHP section. IMHM that's in the wrong place, and should be on the Debug menu

ii) the test code is wrong. I expect that once the program is run, a connection to port 9000 is made by NetBeans (acting as a debug client), so when the test code runs in the PHP page being debugged it tries to open another - which it can't.

Wasted a few hours, but taught me a bit more how PHP debugging works.

Very impressed with NetBeans, by the way. Congratulations and thanks to the team that develops it.

John

Posted by John R on July 18, 2009 at 05:20 PM CEST #

Hi John,

I had the same problem of undefined socket_create(). This is most probably due to the fact that sockets are disabled in php regular installation(in WAMP as my case was). You just have to go to your php.ini file(remember there are 2 php.ini files in case of wamp) and uncomment extension=php_sockets.dll

This should make socket_create as a recognized function call for php engine.

Posted by Sumit on August 28, 2009 at 05:04 PM CEST #

I'm running Vista with the latest XAMPP 2.5.8 (which has PHP version 5.3.0). I installed the latest XDEBUG (matching for VC6 and threaded), and modified php.ini accordingly.

When I load a page with phpinfo(), xdebug does not appear on the page.

I tried the test you have, and it hangs when trying "socket_accept", and says "Transferring data from localhost..."

Do you know what the problem is?

Posted by Quinn on August 28, 2009 at 10:56 PM CEST #

Hello Radek Matous,

Thank you for the script. Unfortunately I have problems to verify my xdebug installation. After running your script no message was printed in the browser window. Could you suggest the steps, how to troubleshoot this problem.

Thank you

Here is my configuration:
Wamp server verxion 2.0h
I downloaded and installed php_xdebug-2.0.5-5.2.dll

My Php.ini
zend_extension_ts="C:/wamp/bin/php/php5.2.9-2/ext/php_xdebug-2.0.5-5.2.dll"
xdebug.remote_enable=on
xdebug.remote_handler=dbgp
xdebug.remote_host=localhost
xdebug.remote_port=9000
xdebug.remote_log=C:\wamp\logs\xdebug.log

Posted by Steve Smith on November 17, 2009 at 10:35 AM CET #