Prevent Xdebug from formatting PHP error messages

Question

I am using Xdebug only for IDE debugging and would like to stop it from reformatting error messages thrown by PHP in the browser. I just want regular PHP error message, without stack trace, table layouts or anything else. How do I achieve that?

Answer 1

In this case, you want to set: xdebug.default_enable=0. This will disable the stack traces upon error message.