Xdebug laravel artisan commands

Question

I regularly use xdebug to debug applications, I've built a laravel application that takes an upload of a csv inserts the data to the database and the ids to a job queue.

I've written an artisan command to be run via cron to then do something with this data.

Xdebug works for accessing the site via the browser, but its not breaking on breakpoints when ran from cli.

I run php5-fpm. My files /etc/php5/fpm/php.ini and /etc/php5/cli/php/ini both contain the following settings:

zend_extension=/usr/lib/php5/20121212/xdebug.so 
xdebug.remote_enable = 1 
xdebug.idekey = 'dev_docker' 
xdebug.remote_autostart = 1 
xdebug.remote_connect_back = {{my host ip}} 
xdebug.remote_port = 9000 
xdebug.remote_handler=dbgp

I then run the artisan command

php artisan jobqueue::process --batch-size=10 --sleep=10

I know the command is running as ->info('text') is displayed in the terminal

Anyone know what I'm missing?

Answer 1

Maybe this will help someone.

In short I had the same problem but I didn't have luck with accepted answer. My solution is to run this from the command line:

php -dxdebug.remote_enable=1 -dxdebug.remote_autostart=on -dxdebug.remote_mode=req -dxdebug.remote_port=9000 -dxdebug.remote_host=127.0.0.1 artisan my:command

Answer 2

I got it working with remote_autostart=1 and setting the PHP_IDE_CONFIG environment variable to "serverName=localhost". localhost is the name of your server config in PHPStorm. Now when I run php artisan I can break at the regular breakpoints.

Let me be more clear :)

If you've got xdebug working with PHPStorm and regular requests this is what you should do to get it working with command line php (artisan).

You have configured paths in PHPStorm so it knows which file it should show you with the breakpoints. These paths are configured under a server (Preferences -> Languages & Frameworks -> PHP -> Servers).

The name of this server should be the serverName value in the PHP_IDE_CONFIG environment variable.