Normally you would browse your repository by using SVN Repositories in the Show View option under Window. Checking out the trunk with Find/Check Out As gives you the option to check out as a PHP Project. Which will enable your Project Outline.

However for some reason I could not get a specific project with the Projecet Outline. Then i checked the .project file created by Zend Studio and noticed 2 differenced.

First the buildspec tag was totally empty. Meaning Zend Studio would not use the Incremental Project Builder and not use the Validation Manager Wrapper. (Does nothing for your project outline)

Second was the natures tag. This tag was also empty. But should have got <nature>org.eclipse.php.core.PHPNature</nature> tag in it for Zend Studio to activate the Project Outline.

So about an hour ago when i was reading my blog list i noticed a post from Max Horvath. In this post he explains how to enable the XDebugger in Zend Studio for Eclipse. Great news for a very slow monday morning. I will not copy his post so you can head over to Max’s Blog and read how to enable XDebug’s power.

Here is a document explaining how to enable XDebug in PDT: http://www.eclipse.org/pdt/documents/XDebugGuide.pdf

One small think i noticed though. Was that when i enabled XDebug according to Max’s post. After enabling it. I went to the Preferences > PHP > Debug tab and noticed there was no PHP Executable to select. So i headed over to the Preferences > PHP > PHP Executables and added a new PHP executable. This seemed to work.