Xdebug

So, you’ve decided to try something new today and started a project from scratch. Your first step will be to set up a development environment: at the bare minimum, you’d want to run a web server and a PHP interpreter (preferably – with the debugging engine installed). With Docker, you can start developing, running, and debugging your code in a matter of minutes! (more…)

When it comes to PHP debugging, Xdebug is the de-facto standard. With the 2.6 version released last week, it’s a good time to take a look at the new features. And since Xdebug has always been tightly integrated with PhpStorm, we’ve been preparing ourselves for it, too. (more…)

It started with a Tweet: Who do i know that uses PHPstorm with VVV and XDebug? I need some guidance on getting things setup. — Andrew Woods (@awoods) June 21, 2016   Recently we've made a lot of changes to debugging in PhpStorm to try and make the process as simple as possible. So I decided to blog about not only how to get debugging working, but the process I used to figure out exact

To make the upcoming weekend even more enjoyable, we are glad to announce availability of Debugging with PhpStorm extended tutorials series which now covers all possible PHP debugging scenarios. In addition to our most-read zero-configuration web application debugging with Xdebug and PhpStorm, we've prepared a similar tutorial for Zend Debugger users. To start with debugging in PhpStorm, tutori

We are rolling out set of very important fixes and performance improvements plus some new features: PHP debugging of PHAR-packed code (only Xdebug engine supports this) resolving, validation, rename and find usages for goto labels indenting code with "Tab" key leaves HEREDOC end marker untouched support for "unlimited parameters" attribute in PHPDoc ($name...) complex doc @annotatio

Many of PhpStorm users like to debug their PHP web applications and local command line scripts using our zero-configuration debugging approach due to its simplicity and comfort. This time we would like to announce that since PhpStorm 4.0 you can use this approach for debugging remote PHP command line scripts. (more…)

We continue developing integration with tools essential for each developer who cares about the quality of his code. This time we want to introduce you Code Coverage for PHPUnit. (more…)

Hello everybody, Recently, we have been often asked to provide a detailed guide in debugging command line scripts. And finally here you are! (more…)

Hello everybody, Xdebug is a great tool and many of you use it for interactive debugging. But Xdebug is not just a debugger, it also provides many other features such as profiling or code coverage Integration with Xdebug Profiler is one of the most voted feature in the PhpStorm issue tracker, so we are happy to announce that its initial support is already implemented in PhpStorm 3.0 EAP! (more

Hello guys, Let’s talk about some new debug features available in PhpStorm 2.1. (more…)

Introduction In the previous post Zero-configuration debugging with XDebug and PhpStorm 2.0, we discussed setting up debugging automatically. This works perfectly in most cases. However, sometimes you may still need to configure debugging manually. In this article we will explain how to do it. (more…)

This blog post is obsolete! Please check new up-to-date tutorial on Zero-configuration Web Application Debugging with Xdebug and PhpStorm Hello guys, We have done a lot of work to simplify the debugging process in PhpStorm 2.0 and we are very grateful to our early adopters for their invaluable feedback. Let's try a new debugging work flow in PhpStorm 2.0. (more…)