have xdebug skip certain functions when debugging

Question

so basically I'm using Zend Framework's autoloader to autoload my functions. But because of this whenever I'm debugging, if I call any function xdebug would go to the autoload function before going to the actual function that is being called.

So if I call the function func(), it will first go to autoload() and then func() which increases debugging cost in terms of time, etc

Ideally if I call func(), it should go directly to func() while still using the autoloader.

Is there a way to specify xdebug (or using any PHP/Zend hack etc) to always skip a certain function (in this case my autoload function) when I'm debugging?

Answer 1

In eclipse with pdt in preferences: PHP -> Debug -> Step Filtering click Add Filter, I added Autoloader.inc and no longer have to go through it

See step_filtering_preferences for more visual instructions