General Consultant Discussion

Anyone here have any experience with php? I am working on an integration project and getting some squirrelly behavior with Eclipse and xdebug - works on one file, then on the next (very similar) file it stops on comment lines, skips over actual lines, and goes off into oblivion. If you could advise on the best way to set up a php debugging environment I would appreciate it.

I tried to dabble in PHP once, but then I found Python and haven't looked back since. :)

Well, the web store I am integrating with is in PHP, so the choices there are limited. I did get the debugging thing figured out. xdebug apparently makes a ""shadow copy"" of the web site you are working on, but even if you make code changes in Eclipse and save them, it doesn't update the shadow copy - you still have to do that manually. What is it about Python that makes it better?

Python just made more sense to me than PHP. It seemed more natural to me than PHP, but I wasn't building a website, either. Just looking at different stuff that was available on the linux box I was working on.

@PhilMcIntosh: Had a visit yesterday with a client, and they showed me some stuff that they are doing with their website. They are using Django, which is a python based framework, to build their website. Django looks pretty sweet, and there are a bunch of prominent sites that apparently use Django. I know it doesn't help you with PHP, but thought it might be of interest to you.