PHP debugging on OS X - hopeless?

Question

I have tried:

1. Xdebug and Eclipse. Eclipse launches a web browser, but the browser tries to access a non-existent file in Eclipse\'s .app bundle.
2. Xdebug an

Answer 1

Here's how I did it:

1 - Copy the latest version of xdebug.so from http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Downloads/Komodo/RemoteDebugging to /usr/libexec.

2 - Add the following to the global php.ini:

zend_extension="/usr/libexec/xdebug.so"
xdebug.remote_enable=1
xdebug.remote_host=localhost
xdebug.remote_port=9000
xdebug.remote_autostart=1

3 - Restart Apache and run MacGDBp.