Recommendations for PHP debuggers?

PHP List,

For the last month I have been using Zend Studio and Zend Platform on
the one month trial period. It works well enough that I was considering
purchasing it.

But it's only now that I realize that the one feature that makes it
worthwhile for me, the "debug server" option, is only available in the
professional edition.

I'm just a lone PHP programmer doing web pages for mainly non-profit
(not charitable, just extremely cash poor) organizations. The difference
between the 100 US dollar standard edition and the 300 US dollar
professional edition is a deal breaker.

So I'm looking around for other debugging options.

The best contender so far has been Quanta with the Gubed plug in. But it
is buggy, and while I've had success in running it, I've also had as
much trouble. Especially with some error messages that won't go away:
http://forum.gubed.mccabe.nu/viewtopic.php?t=396&sid=5b76626496aab99293e062c494a7af2e

After that PHPeclipse seems good. By "seems" I mean that I've installed
Eclipse and PHPeclipse and can run them and see they have a sexy
interface and all. But trying to download the DBG package that makes
PHPeclipse interface with the server is near impossible.

As I'm an Ubuntu user, I tried looking up distro-specific instructions
for installing DBG, and the one forum entry on the topic I found:
http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=6672
... says to go to this web page:
http://www.phpeclipse.de/tiki-index.php?page=DbgBasedDebugger
... where the installation instructions are for Windows!

There's also a package called "NuSphere", which is paid software, but
also rests on the DBG debugger technology. I'm very hesitant to
encounter the same difficulties in installing DBG and having to pay for
it as well.

I asked once before on this list about which PHP editors people
recommend, which is how I heard of Eclipse.

However, now I'm asking:

Does anyone know how to get a reliable PHP graphical debugger to
actually install and work on Linux?

Any tutorials or instructions available anywhere that are newbie
friendly? After all, aren't the newbies the ones most likely to be the
ones to use a GUI debugger?

Any advice or help would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you for your time.

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Dave M G
Ubuntu 6.06 LTS
Kernel 2.6.17.7
Pentium D Dual Core Processor
PHP 5, MySQL 5, Apache 2

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