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Finally making progress

Posted on 1.9.2008, 13:34 by alcaeus
Posted in Ayumi, Browsers, Firefox, Infler, Work, XDebug
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Yes, that title sums up the past few days. After I managed to find the reason for my fatal data loss last week, I quickly went back to work on it. I changed the function in question (of course, I'd be stupid not to), and just for good measure I treated my computer to a SVN server to back up my work and to have version history. I never got around to doing it before, but I guess that crash was enough motivation.

I also decided to install another PHP debugger. I was using the debugger included in the Eclipse PDT (I guess some tiny version of Zend), and occasionaly I used the DBG debugger included in the Delphi for PHP IDE. However, both were not that good. The Eclipse debugger could not handle global breakpoints, which DBG could. On the other hand, Delphi for PHP was configured to launch every project from localhost, which doesn't quite work with my application, since it relies on subdomains. So I decided to install XDebug. It's free, which is a good thing, but then it's also the only choice besides Zend supported by Eclipse out of the box. With the right configuration in Eclipse I can launch the application with the proper URL, click myself through it and rely on it to stop whenever the first breakpoints turns up. I'm pretty happy with it so far, even though it isn't perfect. Eclipse launches IE by default (I have to check if there's a setting to override it) since it's my default browser. However, I do most of my web development in Firefox, since it has a few better debugging features that I haven't gotten around to look for in IE. I won't use Firefox at the moment though, since it manages to crash my Apache server on every pageview. I have to see what goes wrong, since it's only a simple pageview.

So, what's the progress you might wonder? The installer works like a charm, I'm working on the necessary UCP modules (changing password, E-Mail-address and basic settings) and I'm also changing the style a bit. The current one has too much of a "hospital-flair", which isn't really my thing. It once again will be focused around "blue", but it will be different....just a little bit here and there though. The big changes won't come until I start using it for infler.de

Greetz
alcaeus