On the Developer Tutorials website Akash Mehta has posted a tutorial showing how to debug your CakePHP applications with the help of the Zend Studio for Eclipse software from Zend.

After I recently upgraded to Zend Studio for Eclipse, I noticed one troubling feature of my setup - I couldn't debug applications with "pretty urls". [...] In this tutorial, I'll show you how to make use of that power and debug your Cake applications with Zend Studio for Eclipse.

His is a four step method of simple things to get the connection working:

• Disable all .htaccess files
• Add "index.php" to pretty URLs
• Set a breakpoint to debug
• Debug your application using /index.php/ URLs