Happy work note for once:

[haggholm]

PHP can be kind of tortuous, and the interpreter did crash a lot when I installed the penultimate version of the xdebug module, but now I do have a setup with PHP, PHPUnit, and xdebug. Generating code coverage reports is excruciatingly slow (I need to improve my filters, but hopefully-exhaustive testing that has to go through the nice but sluggish PEAR::MDB2 will be slow whatever I do)—but damn, those reports are nice.