Browser integration
Overview
The Firefox Xdebug Toolbar of PHPEdit helps you to debug your scripts on your server. You can easily turn on debugging or profiling for each request, or just for some special ones.
The toolbar is able to exchange important data between an opened PHPEdit instance and the toolbar. You can for example define which errors should be displayed, or if xDebug should pause the execution of the script on the startup.
Installation
You can download the extension from this link: http://www.waterproof.fr/products/PHPEdit/extensions/firefox/download.php
Usage
All options are available through the toolbar or the statusbar. You can arrange all items with the normal customize feature from Firefox. Just right-click on the toolbar and select customize. This will bring up the normal firefox interface, including the new features from our toolbar.
Open in PHPEdit
The toolbar provides you an very easy way to open the current URL from your current tab inside PHPEdit. Just click on the button, and the URL will be passed to PHPEdit. It will search through your projects and try to find the correct project for that given URL and open the related file. When PHPEdit isn't opened you might need to configure the opath to the PHPEdit.exe from inside the toolbar options.
Enable Debugging
This simple button will do all the debugging features for you. It will enable the desired feature for the next requests.
All the options for this switch are defined from the next options menu. This button just toggles the state of the toolbar.
Options
The options popup just defines the basic settings for out toolbar. The most important items are the four items from the top.
Current page will set the current domainname as current site. Every next request to this domain will have the debug features enabled. This is the case for most of normal debug sessions, when you are working on a single project.
Next post request allows you to debug just the first next request. It will enable the degugging for just the first request. All images or CSS files will not debugged, even if they are PHP files.
Next POST request a special option which will just enable the debugging features for next HTTP POST requests. This feature is helpfull for easy forms which will for example give you some data as result. Normal requests will not be debugged.
Current PHPEdit project is an option similiar to the current page one. It will take the current opened project from within PHPEdit, and just enable the debugging for the URL which is configured with the project.
All sites will enable the debug feature from this toolbar for each site you visit. For most of the cases you do not want to use this feature.
Links
The links inside the toolbar provide you an easy way to access common needed resources. They follow the normal conventions of Firefox clicks: With a left click the link will be opened inside the current Tab, when you use the middle mouse button, the link will be opened in a new Tab.
Options
From within the options you can define which debug features should be used. It is the most easiest way to switch options from within PHPEdit inside the toolbar. When you for example enable profiling, it will be enabled inside PHPEdit, too. When you disable it from within PHPEdit, it will be disabled inside the tooolbar, too. For more informations about each of this options you should take a look inside the preferences from PHPEdit.