title: Symfony, netbeans 6.8 and debugging a web page
body: <p>I am using Symfony (1.31) - with Propel ORM to build a website. I have recently moved from using a text editor, to Netbeans (6.8) as my dev environment.</p>
  
  <p>Coming from a compiled language (C++) background, I am used to setting break points in code etc as part of debugging. Web development I have encountered (atleast with PHP), has been largely hit and miss - well debugging has been messy to say the least, using echo statements, logging stuff to file etc. Well I hear that it is possible to debug PHP (i.e. set breakpoints etc). </p>
  
  <p>I have scoured the net for documentation to show how to set breakpoints (say in one of the MVC layesrs) so that when the relevant page(s) is opened via a browser, the breakpoint will get hit and I can step through the code (ideally, watching the program variables).</p>
  
  <p>Is this possible using Symfony and Netbeans 6.8?.</p>