In the past, whenever a new version of ZendStudio was released, a new version of the ZendStudioServer component would be released at the same time. This component allows us to easily conduct remote debugging. But since Zend released ZendPlatform they no longer update the ZendStudioServer component. This means that we can only remotely debug the PHP 5.1.x environment, but not PHP 5.2.x. To debug PHP 5.2.x you can only install a huge ZendPlatform. :( So I've been looking for a "lightweight" solution. Recently, I found a good thing when browsing Zend.com: ZendDebugger-5.2.3-Windows-i386.zip. My intuition told me that this is what I want. Sure enough, today’s test was successful! Let me talk about my test steps below: Go here to download ZendDebugger-5.2.3-Windows-i386.zip, and then unzip it to a certain directory, such as: C:Program Files end. This will create a new ZendDebugger-5.2.3 in the directory. -Windows-i386 subdirectory, which contains 4_3_x_comp, 4_4_x_comp, 5_2_x_comp and other directories. Change these x_y_z_comp to php-x.y.z respectively (for example, change the directory 5_2_x_comp to php-5.2.x); Please fill in the value of zend_extension_manager.debug_server_ts according to your actual situation, which is the parent directory of php-x.y.z. Copy dummy.php in the ZendDebugger-5.2.3-Windows-i386 directory to the root directory of your website. Restart your Web Server, OK! A brief summary: Zend Studio’s remote debugging is provided by the ZendStudioServer component (ZendDebuger.dll). Essentially this is a Zend extension, so you just need to enable this Zend extension. It’s just that the Zend extension produced by Zend Company can only be loaded by the Zend Extension Manager, so we need to do some extra steps, otherwise we only need to simply add a line zend_extension_ts = xxxxxx.
Make sure the Zend Extension Manager is loaded , if Zend Optimizer is installed, Zend Extension Manager will be installed automatically. If it is not installed, please install Zend Optimizer first. Or you can extract ZendExtensionManager.dll from Zend Optimizer, and then manually add a line in php.ini:
zend_extension_ts=”C:Program Files end endOptimizer endExtensionManager.dll”
where ZendExtensionManager.dll Please fill in the location according to your actual situation;
Add the following lines in the php.ini of the Web Server:
zend_extension_manager.debug_server_ts=”C:Program Files end endDebugger-5.2.3-Windows-i386″
zend_debugger.expose_remotely=allowed_hosts
zend_debugger.allow_hosts=127.0.0.1/32,192.168.1.0/24,192.168.1.0/24
zend_debugger.allow_tunnel=127.0.0.1/32