Using XDebug with CodeIgniter

[eluser]ginger_tosser[/eluser]
Neovive,

I'm completely new not only to CI but also PHP & server side stuff (I'm usually a plain vanilla client side HTML & JS, and not very good at either :down: )
I've installed xampp and eclipse/pdt rather than wamp but when I try to debug even a simple PHP script(non-CI) the code doesn't break (I've tried both Zend and XDebug). Is there anything special about wamp, as opposed to xampp, that helps this along? or am I just a useless noob that doesn't understand even half of what I've done, just followed instructions blindly?