Debugging PHP files on browser with Eclipse and xDebug

Question

I have been reading online about debugging with PHP for Developers on Eclipse and xDebug. I have installed all the necessary files for xDebug, and now when I am in Eclipse I can run the debugger with a script and it works just fine.

The issue is that i am using AppServ (Apache, PHP and MySQL) on my Windows machine, and what I would like to do is to debug my PHP files in Eclipse when I am loading the PHP pages in my browser (instead of running them as scripts in Eclipse).

Is that possible?

Joel

Answer 1

In Eclipse, go to 'Preferences' then 'PHP' 'Debug' 'Installed Debuggers', 'XDebug', then 'Configure'

For 'Accept remote session' change this to 'localhost'

This will tell XDebug in Eclipse to debug whenever anyone connects with xdebug cookies or URL params set - using this with Easy Xdebug or xDebug Helper then makes debugging from realistic in-browser contexts a doddle.

I'm assuming you have Eclipse PDT for this, I'm not sure if the steps are different otherwise.