I have installed the WAMP server on my Windows Vista system to allow me to debug PHP scripts locally using PHPStorm 2.0. PHPStorm supports the Zend Debugger, so I downloaded Studio Web Debugger from here and then extracted the ZendDebugger.dll from the directory 5_3_x_nts_comp since I am running PHP 5.3.3.
I then copied the DLL to the PHP extension directory c:\wamp\bin\php\php5.3.3\ext, and copied the dummy.php file to my localhost root as directed by their installation guide. Then I added the following lines to my php.ini file following the other extensions:
extension=ZendDebugger.dll
[Zend]
zend_extension=c:/wamp/bin/php/php5.3.3/ext/ZendDebugger.dll
zend_debugger.allow_hosts=127.0.0.1
zend_debugger.expose_remotely=always
and restarted all services using the WAMP menu.
When I ran phpinfo again from my server, I expected to see an entry indicating the Zend Debugger was loaded, but there wasn't anything changed from before.
Furthermore, in my Apache error log file, I get the messages:
Failed loading c:/wamp/bin/php/php5.3.3/ext/ZendDebugger.dll PHP Warning: PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library 'c:\wamp\bin\php\php5.3.3\ext\ZendDebugger.dll' - The specified module could not be found in Unknown on line 0
Warning: PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library 'c:\wamp\bin\php\php5.3.3\ext\ZendDebugger.dll' - The specified module could not be found. in Unknown on line 0
If I go to a command line, and type dir c:\wamp\bin\php\php5.3.3\ext\ZendDebugger.dll, I get this:
Directory of c:\wamp\bin\php\php5.3.3\ext
06/16/2010 05:51 PM 129,528 ZendDebugger.dll
1 File(s) 129,528 bytes
0 Dir(s) 114,367,250,432 bytes free
so the file appears to be in the right place.
It doesn't seem to make any difference whether I use forward or backward slashes in the path in my php.ini file -- I get the same messages.
What is a little odd, is that in the WAMP menu PHP Extensions, Zend Debugger is checked.
