Is There a way to debug RabbitMQ Consumer (php-ampqlib) using PhpStorm and Xdebug?

Question

Here is my dev setup:

IDE: PhpStorm 9.0.2
Debugger: Xdebug 2.3.3
Message Queue Server: RabbitMQ 3.5.6
PHP Lib to connect to RabbitMQ Server: php-ampqlib

To start my consumer I'm using a CakePHP Task and run like this:

../lib/Cake/Console/cake cron message_trigger_consumer

When I run this command, my consumer is UP and waiting for a message, that will comes from a Producer (for example: Save Form Button that send a confirmation email). Until here, everything is OK, but my two questions are:

1) Is There a way to debug the Consumer? In my point of view, Consumer is in a different process, that's why Xdebug cannot debug it
2) Have some way to attach my Consumer process to my current debug in PhpStorm + Xdebug?

If you not understand my question, please, show me your doubts.

Answer 1

In Web Context Xdebugs Sessions are usually triggered by an Cookie named XDEBUG_SESSION.

On The CLI there are no cookies, so you will have to tell xdebug to start a session by hand:

export PHP_IDE_CONFIG="serverName=your-server-name-configured-in-php-storm"
export XDEBUG_CONFIG="remote_host=ip_of_php_storm_pc idekey=PHPSTORM"

Then in PHP Storm just listen to incoming connections via the phone handset icon.

Its working great!