Good Development Setup for pfSense

[carlosj]

Hi everyone,

For the past few weeks I have been playing around with pfSense codes and have been basically trying to solve any bugs using "echo" and "var_dump". I know this is not a good or standard practice and would seriously hinder my development progress in the future. Therefore, I would like to seek advice from fellow developers here on how I should set up my development environment.

Current Setup:

Virtualbox:
Ubuntu
Pfsense on FreeBSD

I have installed FileZilla on Ubuntu to pull files from the pfSense. After I made changes using NetBeans, I uploaded it back to pfSense using FileZilla to test my changes. Therefore, I have no way to do any breakpoint debugging. I have did a search on the forums and could not find anything related, or just that I couldnt understand.

Please help me on this. I really wish to start contributing to the pfSense project. Thank you!

[Alain A]

Hello
The way is to enable xdebug ( the module is in the pfsense , there are some posts to know how to enable it) and to use eclipse
https://wiki.eclipse.org/Debugging_using_XDebug as IDE
With this config you can do step by step debuging see variables and so on .

Enjoy

Alain