[xdebug-general] Function trace problem

Hello,

I'm trying to use XDebug to help figure out the structure of an LMS (Customized version of Ilias 3.5 from http://ilias.de/) that I'm currently trying to get to run on my machine. Browsing the log I find that many function calls seem to be made from line number 0 (zero) of the file where the function in question is defined/declared. Is this the intended behavior, because normally I would expect to find the filename and line number from where such a function was called?

Some details:
Apache/2.2.8 (Ubuntu) PHP/5.2.4-2ubuntu5.3 with Suhosin-Patch Server at sfj-dt Port 80

Currently, I get this error message when viewing the log-in page in my browser:
( ! ) Fatal error: Call to a member function query() on a non-object in /var/www/sfj/ssi/ilias3/include/inc.db_session_handler.php on line 91
Call Stack
# Time Memory Function Location
1 0.9051 7255728 db_session_write( ) ../inc.db_session_handler.php:0

I'm not particularly worried about the error as I believe I can figure out how to fix it once I figure out from where db_session_write is called. Figuring that out is difficult when the relevant line of log looks like this, though:
$ grep db_session_write /tmp/trace.2043925204.xt
    0.9051 7255728 -> db_session_write() /var/www/sfj/ssi/ilias3/include/inc.db_session_handler.php:0

Now, when I test this using a simple, two-file project where one file containing a function (xdbtest()) is require_once()'d from the other and the function then called I get what I expect:
$ cat /tmp/trace.2043925204.xt
TRACE START [2008-08-26 11:06:21]
    0.0001 53264 -> {main}() /var/www/sfj/t1.php:0
    0.0002 54724 -> require_once(/var/www/sfj/t2.php) /var/www/sfj/t1.php:2
    0.0003 54524 -> xdbtest() /var/www/sfj/t1.php:4
    0.0004 24476
TRACE END [2008-08-26 11:06:21]

I can easily see from where the call to xdbtest() was made.

I'm having trouble understanding why - is this the intended behavior of XDebug, a misconfiguration issue on my box, a bug, or something else that I haven't thought of?

I'd much appreciate any thoughts on this. If there's any relevant info I didn't include please ask.

Regards,
Silas
Received on Tue Aug 26 2008 - 13:17:31 BST