1. Requirements:
   Firstly, we must have Netbeans, Xdebug, Chromium (or Google Chrome) installed.

   How to check if Xdebug installed?

   user@ubuntu:~$ php -v
   PHP 5.3.6-13ubuntu3.6 with Suhosin-Patch (cli) (built: Feb 11 2012 02:17:16)
   Copyright (c) 1997-2011 The PHP Group
   Zend Engine v2.3.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2011 Zend Technologies
       with Xdebug v2.1.0, Copyright (c) 2002-2010, by Derick Rethans
   

   
   

2. Install Xdebug helper extension
   Visit this URL using Chromium (or Google Chrome).
   Press [Add To Chrome] button to install the Xdebug helper extension.
   
   
3. Configure Xdebug helper options
   Under Chrome extensions, Xdebug helper, press Options.
   Select Netbeans for IDE key.
   Add domains to the domain filter whitelist.
   
   

4. Configure Netbeans
   Tools > Options > General > Web Browser, press [Edit] button.
   Press [Add] button to add a new browser, set configuration as below:

   Process:
   /usr/bin/chromium-browser
   or
   /usr/bin/google-chrome

   Arguments:
   -remote "{URL}" --user-data-dir=~/.cache/chromium
   or
   -remote "{URL}" --user-data-dir=~/.cache/google-chrome

   [OK]

   
   
   

5. Debugging
   You can now debug a project (Ctrl+F5) or debug a file (Ctrl+Shift+F5)

   

   To control debugger session

   Finish Debugger Session (Shift+F5)
   Continue (F5)
   Step Over (F8)
   Step Into (F7)
   Step Out (Ctrl+F7)
   Run to Cursor (F4)
   or use the buttons in Debug Toolbar

PART 1 - Ubuntu
Ubuntu is a computer operating system based on the Debian Linux distribution and distributed as free and open source software, using its own desktop environment.

1. Download & install Ubuntu Linux.
   
2. Update package index and upgrade OS.
   To update package index

   sudo apt-get update

   
   To upgrade all installed packages

   sudo apt-get upgrade

   
   
3. Installing software packages
   To install a package

   sudo apt-get install <package-name>

   
   To remove a package

   sudo apt-get remove <package-name>

   
   

PART 2 - LAMP
LAMP is an acronym for a solution stack of free, open source software, referring to the first letters of Linux (operating system), Apache HTTP Server, MySQL (database software) and PHP (or sometimes Perl or Python), principal components to build a viable general purpose web server.

1. Install LAMP
   To install Apache 2, MySQL 5, PHP 5, Apache PHP5 module, PHP MySQL package.

   sudo apt-get install apache2
   sudo apt-get install mysql-server
   sudo apt-get install mysql-client
   sudo apt-get install php5
   sudo apt-get install libapache2-mod-php5
   sudo apt-get install php5-mysql

   
   or simply

   sudo apt-get install lamp-server^

   
   to install all packages below:
   perl-modules apache2 mysql-server-core-5.1 mysql-client-core-5.1 perl libmysqlclient16 libdbi-perl apache2-mpm-prefork apache2.2-common apache2.2-bin apache2-utils libapr1 libaprutil1 libaprutil1-dbd-sqlite3 libaprutil1-ldap libcap2 ssl-cert libwrap0 mysql-server libapache2-mod-php5 php5-common php5-cli libclass-isa-perl libdbd-mysql-perl libplrpc-perl libhtml-template-perl mysql-common libnet-daemon-perl libpod-plainer-perl libswitch-perl tcpd mysql-client-5.1 mysql-server-5.1 php5-mysql
   

PART 3 - Optional Packages

1. Zend Framework Zend Framework is an open source, object oriented web application framework for PHP 5.
   To install Zend Framwork CLI

   sudo apt-get install zend-framework-bin

   
   
2. PHPUnit PHPUnit is a unit testing software framework for PHP.
   To install PHPUnit

   sudo apt-get install php-pear
   sudo pear channel-update pear.php.net
   sudo pear channel-discover pear.phpunit.de
   sudo pear channel-discover pear.symfony-project.com
   sudo pear update-channels
   sudo pear upgrade-all
   sudo pear install --alldeps phpunit/PHPUnit
   sudo apt-get install phpunit

   
   or

   sudo apt-get install php-pear
   sudo pear update-channels
   sudo pear config-set auto_discover 1
   sudo pear install --alldeps pear.phpunit.de/PHPUnit
   sudo apt-get install phpunit

   
   
3. Xdebug
   Xdebug is a PHP extension which provides debugging and profiling capabilities.
   To install Xdebug

   sudo apt-get install php5-xdebug

   
   Add the following lines into etc/php5/conf.d/xdebug.ini if it does not exist.

   zend_extension = “/usr/lib/php5/20090626-lfs/xdebug.so”
   xdebug.remote_enable=on
   xdebug.remote_handler=dbgp
   xdebug.remote_host=localhost
   xdebug.remote_port=9000

   
   
4. Optional PHP extensions
   To install PHP extensions
   

   sudo apt-get install php5-cgi php5-cli php5-curl php5-gd php5-idn php5-imagick php5-imap php5-mcrypt php5-memcache php5-ming php5-mysql php5-pgsql php5-ps php5-pspell php5-recode php5-snmp php5-sqlite php5-tidy php5-xmlrpc php5-xsl

   
   * install only which needed.
   
5. MySQL GUI tools
   
   
   1. Install MySQL Administrator and MySQL Query Browser

      sudo apt-get install mysql-admin
      sudo apt-get install mysql-query-browser

      
      and/or
   2. Install phpMyAdmin

      sudo apt-get install phpmyadmin

      
      Add the following line into /etc/apache2/apache2.conf

      Include /etc/phpmyadmin/apache.conf

6. Integrated Development Environment
   
   1. Eclipse
      Install Eclipse IDE
      

      sudo apt-get install eclipse

      
      Install PHP Development Tools (PDT)
      

      sudo add-apt-repository ppa:yogarine/eclipse/ubuntu
      sudo apt-get update
      sudo apt-get install eclipse-pdt

      
      and/or
      
   2. Netbeans IDE
      Download & install Netbeans IDE
      Install Java

      sudo apt-get install sun-java6-jdk sun-java6-jre

      
      Download & install Netbeans

      sudo sh ./netbeans-7.1.1-ml-php-linux.sh

      
      Or simply download & install the Java SE and NetBeans Cobundle

      sudo sh ./jdk-7u3-nb-7_1_1-linux-ml.sh

      
      
7. Web browser debugging tool
   
   1. Firebug Install Firebug. or
   2. Developer tools in Chromium Browser Install Chromium Browser

      sudo apt-get install chromium-browser

      
      Press Ctrl+Shift+I to open Developer Tools
      
8. Install version control system
   
   1. Subversion
      Subversion (SVN) is a software versioning and revision control system distributed under an open source license.
      Install Subversion
      

      sudo apt-get install subversion
      sudo apt-get install libapache2-svn

      
      
   2. Git
      Git is a distributed revision control and source code management (SCM) system with an emphasis on speed.
      Install Git

      sudo apt-get install git-core
      sudo apt-get install git-doc
      sudo apt-get install git-svn
      sudo apt-get build-dep git-core git-doc git-svn

      
      

PART 4 - Packages version
To check installed packages version

apache2 -v
php -v
mysql -V
phpunit --version
git --version
svn --version
java -version
zf show version

Issue:

• Zend Framework placeholder (headTitle, headMeta, headLink, headScript, headStyle, inlineScript) creates twice or multiple title/meta/link/script tags in HTML.
• Duplicated title/meta/link/script tags generated from Zend Framework placeholder.

• e.g.:

  source:

  <?php echo $this->headScript()->appendFile("/scripts/global.js") ?>
  <?php echo $this->headScript()->appendFile("/scripts/main.js") ?>
  
  

  output:

  <script src="/scripts/global.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
  <script src="/scripts/global.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
  <script src="/scripts/main.js" type="text/javascript"></script>

Reason:

• Echo will output all elements in a placeholder.

Solution:

• Echo only once for each placeholder.

• e.g.:

  <?php $this->headLink()->appendStylesheet('/styles/global.css') ?>
  <?php $this->headLink()->appendStylesheet('/styles/main.css') ?>
  <?php echo $this->headLink() ?>
  
  <?php $this->headScript()->appendFile("/scripts/global.js") ?>
  <?php $this->headScript()->appendFile("/scripts/main.js") ?>
  <?php echo $this->headScript() ?>

Issue:

• [error]
  [client 127.0.0.1] 
  PHP Fatal error:  Uncaught exception 'Zend_Application_Bootstrap_Exception' with message 'Resource matching "view" not found' in /home/user/ZendFramework-1.11.11/library/Zend/Application/Bootstrap/BootstrapAbstract.php:694
  Stack trace:
  #0 /home/user/ZendFramework-1.11.11/library/Zend/Application/Bootstrap/BootstrapAbstract.php(629): Zend_Application_Bootstrap_BootstrapAbstract->_executeResource('view')
  #1 /home/user/ZendFramework-1.11.11/library/Zend/Application/Bootstrap/BootstrapAbstract.php(586): Zend_Application_Bootstrap_BootstrapAbstract->_bootstrap('view')
  #2 /home/user/ZendFramework-1.11.11/bin/jquery/application/Bootstrap.php(7): Zend_Application_Bootstrap_BootstrapAbstract->bootstrap('view')
  #3 /home/user/ZendFramework-1.11.11/library/Zend/Application/Bootstrap/BootstrapAbstract.php(669): Bootstrap->_initDoctype()
  #4 /home/user/ZendFramework-1.11.11/library/Zend/Application/Bootstrap/BootstrapAbstract.php(622): Zend_Application_Bootstrap_BootstrapAbstract->_executeResource('doctype')
  #5 /home/user/ZendFramework-1.11.11/library/Zend/Appli in /home/user/ZendFramework-1.11.11/library/Zend/Application/Bootstrap/BootstrapAbstract.php on line 694

Reason:

• Resource matching "view" not found.

Solution:

• Add the following line to application.ini

  resources.view[] =

Issue:

• bootstrap is being executed twice.
• specified action is being called twice.
• counter increased twice per hit.

Reason:

• Web browser loads a file which is not exist, either through src or href attribute with invalid or empty value (e.g. favicon.ico, global.css, & etc.), web server treats it as "Page not found" error (404).
• Default configuration for Zend application, the default application (index.php) will handle error 404, an error message "Invalid controller specified" will be displayed, indirectly causing code in bootstrap.php also being executed.

Solution:

• Create a favicon.ico in DocumentRoot. and
• Prevent loading any file which is not exist. or

• Modify web server configuration (httpd.conf or .htaccess),
  rewrite rule to exclude paths for specified file type.

  RewriteEngine On
  RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -s [OR]
  RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -l [OR]
  RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d [OR]
  RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} (.*)\.(woff|ttf|svg|js|ico|gif|jpg|png|css|htc|xml|txt|swf)$
  RewriteRule ^.*$ - [NC,L]
  RewriteRule ^.*$ index.php [NC,L]