Error message: "unexpected termination of script, debugging ended", when debugging PHP with Xdebug and Eclipse

Question

I'm getting the following error when debugging:

php.ini settings:

 xdebug.remote_enable=true
 xdebug.remote_host=localhost
 xdebug.remote_port=9000
 xdebug.remote_handler=dbgp

Answer 1

Assuming no syntax errors, make sure that you do not have any watches that cause the script to crash as the debugger attempts to evaluate them.

From my experience, this is the most common cause for such early death.

Regardless of that, you may also wish to change your internal web browser, as IE tends to provide cryptic error messages, or use an external browser session (and use remote debugging).

Answer 2

removing watch expressions solved this issue for me