Installation (Netbeans)

• 7.2.1 for stable, local debugging
• 8.0.2 for new features, remote debugging

Installation (xdebug)

• Always use newest version (2.2.6)
• Be careful with the configuration

Xdebug config

[xdebug]
;zend_extension=/usr/lib/php5/20121212/xdebug.so

; This is for local debugging
; xdebug.remote_host=127.0.0.1
; xdebug.remote_connect_back=0
; This is for virtual host (cli)
; xdebug.remote_host=192.168.56.1
; xdebug.remote_connect_back=0

; This is for remote debugging
xdebug.remote_connect_back=1

xdebug.remote_enable=1
xdebug.remote_autostart=0
xdebug.remote_cookie_expire_time=86400
xdebug.remote_port=9000
xdebug.idekey=”netbeans-xdebug”
xdebug.profiler_enable=0
xdebug.profiler_enable_trigger=1
xdebug.profiler_output_dir=/tmp
xdebug.profiler_output_name=cachegrind.out.%p.%R.%r

remote_enable

If it is set to 0, we can not debug at all

remote_autostart

If it is set to 1, we can not debug simpletest test cases

$response = \file_get_contents('http://dev.gocatalyze.com/crm/people');

remote_autostart

If it is set to 0, we can not debug from console, but we can overcome it

bash, shell:
  vim ~/.bashrc
  export XDEBUG_CONFIG="idekey=netbeans-xdebug"
  exec bash
fish:
  vim ~/.config/fish/config.fish
  set -x XDEBUG_CONFIG "idekey=netbeans-xdebug"
  exec fish

sudo service apache2 restart (if needed)

remote_connect_back

If it is set to 0, we have to make sure our local machine's ip is static and does not change every time we start debug session

Static ip/single developer

Unknown ip/multiple developers

remote_cookie_expire_time

If we want to wait for a long time before press 'Continue' button, we have to set it to a big number

Creating project

Creating project

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Debugging

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Conditional breakpoint

Not available in netbeans for PHP, but we can do it manually

if ($var == 123 || in_array($item, $array)) {
  // breakpoint goes below.
  $a = 'b';
}