Description Roy Ganor 2010-11-22 07:20:23 EST

During debugging I cannot see, in the 'Variables' window, the value of variables that are attributes of a class.

E.G.
two programs, a.php, which requires b.class.php

a.php
-----------------
<?php

require_once "b.class.php";
$instance = new b;
$instance->doSomething();
exit;
?>

b.class.php
------------------
<?php

class b
{
public $varOne;
private $varTwo;

public function doSomething()
{
$this->varOne = simplexml_load_file("http://someUrl.com/somefile.xml");
$this->varTwo = "some val";
$local = "some other var";
..... more stuff here ...
}
}

?>
In the above example, when I have the prog running in debug (by using the "debug" toolbar option on my firefox browser) and I am stepping through the entire thing line by line, the debugger nicely steps from a.php into b.class.php. As I step through the method doSomething() I cannot see how to 'see' the assigned value of $this->varOne. I can see the locally scoped variable "$local", but I cannot find a way to see what the value of $this->varOne is ..
When I am in 'a.php' I can see the local object $instance, and from there I can see the attributes, but that is no use when I am actually in the class file itself.


Obviously this is a bit of a problem as that, for me, is half the point of having a debugger .... :(