Comments on: Viewing Error Backtraces for Ambiguous Error Messages

By: Dan Shields

Dan Shields — Thu, 13 May 2010 01:58:12 +0000

I only used it because when first setting up Magento, I had problems setting up my project in Eclipse but it was pretty simple in Netbeans. I am sure it is just as simple in Eclipse but I had some weird issue I can’t remember. I used Eclipse before, for Java work, but mainly used Intellij Idea which I love. I am not sure how good their PHP plugin is but I haven’t seen much about it.

We have developers that use Eclipse and they seem pretty close to me, Although SVN was built in for me and I know they had to install a plugin.

By: ehansen

ehansen — Thu, 13 May 2010 00:09:40 +0000

@Dan – I’ve added the http://txfx.net/wordpress-plugins/subscribe-to-comments/ plugin to our WP install. Thanks for that suggestion.

I’ve never used NetBeans. Last time I compared it to PDT/Zend Studio, I wasn’t too impressed. I’ll have to check it out again.

By: Dan Shields

Dan Shields — Mon, 10 May 2010 20:06:27 +0000

Didn’t know you replied, wonder if there is something you can have where it will email me if someone posts a comment. I always like that, otherwise I forget to go back and look.

I use Netbeans for Magento, themes as well but I use CSS Edit. I also use Textmate but for some reason on Magento I use Netbeans for HTML, but I am not doing a lot of static buildout, if I was just doing html/css probably would use Textmate and CSSEdit. I use Xdebug for degugging. I just haven’t got around to putting in your updates.

By: ehansen

ehansen — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 16:32:27 +0000

@Dan - What are you using for your debugging setup? We use PDT + Xdebug for backend development and TextMate for theme development. Using Xdebug (over Zend Debugger) gives us awesome Exception/Error backtraces, as you can read about in this article.

By: Dan Shields

Dan Shields — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 03:35:40 +0000

Sweet, I have been doing it the way you have been before finding out about the logging. I even have breakpoints on some catch blocks in the Zend files for certain DB errors that I get that come back ambiguous. I am going to love this.