[xdebug-general] Re: Feature request: implement a path-rewrite system

Personally I think it is best left to the IDE. You can have multiple users
all working on the same server even debugging the same script, but the
equivalent setup on the users machine can and is likely to be different
for each user so best that each user can tailor their own environment
rather than have to keep configuring the server (some users may not be
able to do that either). Also both PHPeclipse and PDT support other
debuggers apart from xdebug and they also need the feature as well.

Best regards

Dave Kelsey

xdebug-general-bounce[@]lists.xdebug.org wrote on 26/11/2008 19:26:24:

> Hi Mauro, Dave,
>
> Thanks for your suggestions, but don't you think it would be nice if
> it were Xdebug that implemented such a path-mapping system instead of
> the individual clients. Any xdebug client available today could then
> benefit and work in pretty much any setup.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Mathieu
>
> On 26 nov 2008, at 18:08, Mauro C. wrote:
>
> > PHPEclipse too.
> >
> > Mauro Casciari
> > ________________________________
> > Da: Dave Kelsey <d_kelsey[@]uk.ibm.com>
> > A: Mathieu Kooiman <mathieuk[@]gmail.com>
> > Cc: xdebug-general[@]lists.xdebug.org;
xdebug-general-bounce[@]lists.xdebug.org
> > Inviato: Mercoledì 26 novembre 2008, 18:28:10
> > Oggetto: [xdebug-general] Re: Feature request: implement a path-
> > rewrite system
> >
> >
> > You might want to take a look at PDT,
> > it implements path mapping to solve the problem you are describing.
> >
> > Dave Kelsey
> >
> >
> >
> > xdebug-general-bounce[@]lists.xdebug.org wrote on 26/11/2008
> > 10:55:42:
> >
> >> Hi list,
> >>
> >> I'd like to submit a feature request.
> >>
> >> At our office, we keep all of our code on a centralized server. This
> >> means that we generally edit our files over some sort of network
> >> filesystem, like SMB, NFS or AFP. A side-effect of this is that any
> >> xdebug GUI client is unable to correctly set breakpoints.
> >>
> >> Imagine server A, where I have a file debug.php in
> >> /home/mathieu/public_html/svnreps/project/ . When I access this file
> >> from my workstation, the local path I access it over is
> >> /Volumes/mathieu/public_html/svnreps/project/debug.php. If I use,
> >> say, MacGDBp or Netbeans, to debug this file while it's running
> >> through the webserver on Server A and try to set a breakpoint on
> >> line 15 of debug.php GUI clients will tell xdebug to set a
> >> breakpoint on file /Volumes/mathieu/public_html/svnreps/project/
> >> debug.php:15.
> >>
> >> Net result: the breakpoint is never hit because the path given is
> >> not a file that xdebug on Server A will ever encounter
> >> (/Volumes/mathieu as such doesn't exist on Server A).
> >>
> >> I had encountered this before when I built XDC http://code.google.
> >> com/p/xdebugclient ) and XDC counters this problem by offering the
> >> user a way to rewrite a local path to the remote path automatically.
> >> But I think it would make sense to implement such a path-rewrite
> >> system into Xdebug itself, so that any client can benefit from it
> >> directly. Such a path-rewrite system could take the form of two (.
> >> htaccess-configurable) settings:
> >>
> >> php_value xdebug.path_rewrite_from "/Volumes/mathieu:/Volumes/
> >> michiel"
> >> php_value xdebug.path_rewrite_to "/home/mathieu:/home/michiel"
> >>
> >> This definition would define 2 rewrite rules:
> >>
> >> - /Volumes/mathieu -> /home/mathieu
> >> - /Volumes/michiel -> /home/michiel
> >>
> >> Xdebug would apply these simple rewrite rules to any path it
> >> receives from a client like breakpoints, source requests, etc before
> >> actually using the given path. I suppose you could extend this into
> >> allowing regex for complex rewrite rules, but I think that simple
> >> rewrite rules would cover most cases.
> >>
> >> Thoughts?
> >>
> >> Kind regards,
> >>
> >> Mathieu Kooiman
> >
> >
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