Upgrading Zend Studio’s Internal Debugger

  • Posted by Mike Naberezny in PHP

    Zend Studio for Windows ships with an “internal” debugger for running your scripts in Studio without a webserver. Studio 4.0.2 ships with PHP 5.0.3. Recently, I encountered a bug in 5.0.3 that was corrected in 5.0.4 and I wanted to upgrade the internal debugger myself rather than wait for the next Studio release. Here’s how to do it.

    First, download the ZIP package of Windows binaries from PHP downloads. Extract the files php-cgi.exe and php5ts.dll to a temporary folder. Rename the file php-cgi.exe to php.exe. This is necessary because Studio needs the CGI version of PHP, and the ZIP package’s php.exe is the CLI version.

    Next, find Zend Studio’s internal PHP5 interpreter. This is the default installation path: C:\Program Files\Zend\ZendStudioClient-4.0.2\bin\php5

    Notice two files in this directory: php.exe and php5ts.dll. Backup these two files and then remove them from the directory. Finally, replace these with the versions from your temporary folder, and the upgrade is complete. You can write a simple script with phpinfo(); inside Studio to verify the upgrade.

This entry was posted on Wednesday, July 13th, 2005 at 7:32 am and is filed under PHP.