Hello. I bought today PHPED, and I must say that I'm really happy with it. By using various IDEs in these days, I feel I have to suggest you this: It would be useful to see, during a debug, the partial output generated until a break point occured. Let me explain myself better.

Assuming I have this code:



where * stands for a break point. When the debug starts, it will stop before PHP echoes "Third": it would be nice to have a sort of "partial output" view, in which we should see



In my opinion, this could make the debug easier, instead of putting echoes to see whether something outed or not at a given point; by now I can only see the output at the end of the script.

EDIT: I saw that something like that is done by the "Output" view of the debugger, rather than the "Output" panel that pops out between the open files when the debug is complete. That's great, but it leads me to another improvement: since the the Output view only outputs code, how about an Output view that renders the HTML code, so we can see the partial output browser-like in the middle of a debug?

Correct. Debug Window->Output shows everything that went to the output up to the debugging point.




Output with browser is EXACTLY what you're asking about and it GETS exactly the same data as Debug Window->output, but most of time you don't see anything there because browser waits for more data to come

Could you please shed some more light on this? I saw a case in which, even if the Debug Window->output had a complete HTML file (ending with </html>), the Output panel still didn't show nothing.

I presume that if you enable output buffering it won't show up.
In any case, I've never known the output panel to output anything unless I explicitly do a flush, must be my PHP settings
I've never missed it though so I didn't look into it yet.

It's completely up to the browser when its rendering has to start. It may depend, for example, on HTTP headers and on the html file itself.

Also, as Steve noticed, buffering may play its role too. Try ob_ flush() to flush the output buffers.