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user63898
user63898

Reputation: 30915

What is the best way to develop a Facebook web app and debug it?

Locally I use Eclipse PHP's great PDT plug-in, but when I need to integrate with Facebook
it seems that I have no alternative but to use the vim/local editor without the ability to use a debugger.
I there any way to keep using Eclipse PDT while developing a Facebook web app?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 251

Answers (3)

alexarno
alexarno

Reputation: 422

I do this in Visual studio, not sure about Eclipse.

VS has a built in webserver so when you are debugging you view the page on http://localhost:x , because facebook apps are viewed in an iframe you can set your app to load from localhost.

When you have done that viewing the facebook app normally in facebook will load the page from your IDEs webserver giving normal debugging.

Then when you are ready to go live either swap over the URL in the app setup to where it is hosted, or create another app with the live URL so you can continue debugging (just remember to have a build script that swaps out your app id/secret if you do this).

Upvotes: 1

Allan Jikamu
Allan Jikamu

Reputation: 341

If you mean IDE, you can use NetBeans or Zend Studio for more rich featured php editor.

Upvotes: 0

ifaour
ifaour

Reputation: 38135

Facebook API is just a service (a collection of HTTP requests). You can use any IDE you like, you can even use Notepad!

Upvotes: 0

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