How to enable formatted Xdebug errors and traces

Question

I am not sure when or what I have changed, but suddenly xdebug no longer renders its formatted stacktraces. Instead, it renders the stacktrtace without any HTML; here is an example; Whereas I would expect the orange tables like here

I have searched the documentation, but cannot find any reference to a setting or config that would (un)set this. What did I do wrong?

My xdebug.ini (Ubuntu, so /etc/php5/conf.d/xdebug.ini) is small:

zend_extension=/usr/lib/php5/20090626+lfs/xdebug.so

xdebug.default_enable = 1
xdebug.auto_trace = 1

xdebug.remote_enable = 1
xdebug.remote_port = 9010
xdebug.remote_host = audrey

; xdebug.profiler_enable = 1

; Markup of var_dump
xdebug.overload_var_dump = 1

Answer 1

Xdebug respects PHP's normal settings regarding error reporting and formatting. In this case, you have most likely "html_errors" set to Off in php.ini. Turn it back to On, and Xdebug should show nice orange tables again.

cheers, Derick

Answer 2

Try this

ini_set('xdebug.auto_trace', 1);

http://php.net/manual/en/function.ini-set.php