Hi,
how to see the value of the constants (defined with define()) during the debug session?

You may use either Watch or Immediate windows.

it seems not possible to add a costant to the watch window
in immediate I don't find them too

Watch window always contains an empty line at the bottom. It's where you can click and edit (F2) an expression to evaluate. Just enter constant name there and the IDE will re-evaluate its value each time it stops on a breakpoint or on a next debugger step.
Immediate window is rather a simple editor where you can enter an expression and press Enter to evaluate it. Of course, it works while the IDE is in debug session.

If in stead of a particular constant you need to see all defined constants, just put get_defined_constants() function call in the Watch or Immediate. It's not that hard, is it?

yes ddmitrie; maybe you could add the item "add (CONSTANT_NAME) to watch list" in the contextual help for the constants too; now there is for the normal variables.

Isn't possible to have the value of the constants in the "Locals" view or better "Globals" during the debug?

Instead of variables, it's hardly possible to distinguish constant names in the source code.


Right, it's possible to have them in the Globals, but would make very little sense:
a) constants are not variables and should not be mixed together
b) they would waste a lot of space. Even without user-defined constants, there are too many extension-defined ones.
c) network traffic would increase dramatically, it's important for remote debugging.
On the other hand, it could be made with an option to turn them off

maybe you could show just constants defined from the user with the function "define()"; it should be easy to detect them

about other:

a) yes sure, you could create a node "Constants" and show them inside
b) I would suggest to show just user defined constants
c) yes sure I hope you gzip it

Hi,

I’ve just bumped into the same problem as black: ddmitrie`s tip with get_defined_constants() works well BUT it is quite hard to comfortably navigate through the jungle of all defined constants instead just yours ones. As far as I can see there was no further comment of ddmitrie on that issue - is it possible to have this future in a near release? (Maybe my post is a feature request already? )

Cheers,
Szymon Bakowski

Yes, there is a jungle but how would php distinguish your constants from other' ?

highlighter has no relation to debugger and they are working on the different sides.

Well, in that context it has because it makes debugging much easier when we know which constants have been defined by us. So there is a way to distinguish it....