phpStorm, xdebug: is there a way to exclude certain directories from debugging?

Question

When I'm debugging, I would like to exclude certain directories - for example, every time a class is instantiated, my debugger steps into Doctrine's ClassLoader::loadClass() which is annoying... I tried adding those directories I want to exclude in Settings / PHP / Debug / Skipped Paths, but that doesn't help...

Answer 1

What I found in PhpStorm (I don't know since which version it's there - mine now is 2018.1): Lanugage & Frameworks > PHP > Debug > Step Filters.

For Symfony 4, these Skipped Methods brought peace to debugging:

• Composer\Autoload\ClassLoader->findFileWithExtension
• Composer\Autoload\ClassLoader->findFile
• Symfony\Component\Debug\DebugClassLoader->loadClass
• Symfony\Component\Debug\DebugClassLoader->checkClass
• Symfony\Component\Debug\DebugClassLoader->getOwnInterfaces