Debug Joomla with Netbeans

[chrisnorthstar]

Hello,

this is the information from php.ini:

This program makes use of the Zend Scripting Language Engine:
Zend Engine v2.4.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2012 Zend Technologies
    with Xdebug v2.2.0, Copyright (c) 2002-2012, by Derick Rethans

It´s possible to debug a procedual code, but when I debugging Joomla2.5,
it´s not possible to debug the entire code xdebug turn off when a Constant
appears for exaple -JPATH_THEMES- etc.

My question is:
how do you debug your Joomla code without an output like echo or var_dump?

Best regards
chris :)

[Bakual]

Personally I use JDump (http://extensions.joomla.org/extensions/miscellaneous/development/1509) where I want to echo/var_dump something. And of course the error reporting and debug functions already included in Joomla.

[chrisnorthstar]

Do you every tried to work with a IDE Debugger in Joomla?