Kevin Bridges

Komodo provides a solid IDE for Drupal work that constantly surprises me with hidden tidbits of usefulness. One of the latest tricks I've been using provides the ability to perform quick lookups against http://api.drupal.org/ with a simple keyboard command. By default, this functionality is set to lookup functions against php, but because php help presents itself in tooltips I find it useful to redirect searches for Drupal.

I've been using ActiveState's Komodo for a few weeks now in response to my frustrations with Eclipse. As with any IDE there was a short relearning of my ways that was necessary, but I am happy to report that I really like this IDE. The last bit of functionality I've been wanting to tie together is directly related to debugging Drupal in Komodo. Here's the steps that I took to get a Drupal development environment with debugging in Komodo on a clean installation of a 64bit Ubuntu 8.04.

A good deal of this may be redundant if you already have your environment established, but it is recorded here nonetheless to help others become proficient at what we do. While I prefer command line interfaces I am going to lean towards providing gui tools to allow newer devs options. If you don't need or want all of the minute details skip to step 6 and get straight into configuring for debugging.