VirtualHostsX is great, but again, not willing to pay for it. Once I installed it (to try it out) I pretty much had to start over with my customized MAMP stack. So be ware.

Just to know.
You can use VirtualHostsX on Mac to create virtual hosts (surprise).

It’s a very simple app that does what you teach in the Part 3.
Of course, what you said is correct. It’s just my 2cents

Netbeans it’s a great tool for developer. But, to me, it’s a little heavy. I always need to check the website on Internet Explorer, so Netbeans + Dreamweaver + Photoshop + Windows XP (on Virtualbox) my 4gb are too little
Today I’m using Coda + Photoshop + Windows XP (sometimes Windows 7 to test on IE9). And I’m happy with that. Sometimes I need to go back to Dreamweaver, it’s a ninja tool to create forms (inputs, labels, etc..) and tables. Just TAB and I have a new row

Regards
(sorry for my comment has nothing about Debugging)

In case you haven’t resolved this yet…

Does it even break at the beginning of the script? It should pause your page so it seems unresponsive and you should get a green highlight bar on the first line of your index.php page. It is possible to hit F7 when the cursor is about to jump out of the current page. In this way. you can drill down all the way to the page you need to check. I say this because there is a possibility that you may not be getting to the break point in execution.

Finally, I had to actually download the MAMP source code and build a newer version of xdebug against it recently as I was having problems with newer versions of netbeans.

Good luck!

Thanks a lot of the hard work, I really appreciate it..
I got Netbeans to show me the debug toolbar and the addon on mozila seems to be working fine,

The only issue I am having is that netbeans never comes to the break-point, I can see some values changing in the variables window (when I debug), which means ( i assume) the xdebug is working fine, but how can I get it to move to the break-point where I want it

I have followed all the steps suggested here, except the .htaccess file, as I did not know what to do with that or where to put it,

Any help would be highly appreciated, and thanks again..

Cheers
Hasn

Did some research and I guess Google likes me today.

If you’d like to get rid of that annoying 404 & get CI & Netbeans/Xdebug working flawlessly in under 15 seconds….

Add these 1 line to your config file & change another.

Have a look:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/978325/enablequerystrings-not-working

TOP answer from Phil Sturgeon. The man’s a legend.

I followed your tuts to a ‘t’, and with the exception of some updates to the tools (as you mentioned in your reply to my comments) it worked exactly as expected. I am particularly glad for those last 2 segments where you really tied everything together! It was quite a blur up to that point, but that cleared things up.

A follow up question or two, if I might:

- For some reason when I start debugging, while everything pretty much works as you’ve explained (connection, stepping-through, etc) the problem I’m having is that Netbeans only and repeatedly cycles through CI config-file, and that’s about it. It never makes it to any of the controllers, views, etc.

I’m wondering if you might shed some light on this?

10/10

You get a perfect score! “Useful” is the mother of all understatements. I’ve been coding manually in textmate and debugging mostly in my head (you can imagine how reliable that is!). Your tuts have opened up a whole new avenue for me! while I’m not in love with NetBeans, there’s no question that after your screencasts it will take a prominent place at the forefront of my workflow.

See you on the forums @ CI

Oh, and PS: If you could put RESTful into the same eloquent, well spoken, understandable terms… You’d probably get something of a cult following!