How To Setup a Free PHP Debugger using Eclipse PDT XDebug. When I debug code, I find that a debugger is a very powerful tool. With a debugger you can set breakpoints, step through code, watch variables, do a stack trace, and much, much more. The eclipse PDT XDebug offers a PHP debugger that you can use for free. It also offers a full PDT IDE for editing, building, and debugging your PHP projects, but I use eclipsePDTXDebug only as a debugger since I like to use my favorite editor for editing. This guide shows how to setup eclipsePDTXDebug as your PHP Debugger. This guide was written and tested using the R2. Ter um servidor web completo localmente pode ser complicado, mas para ter um no seu sistema, veja a seguir como instalar o XAMPP no Linux de um jeito fcil. PDT all in one package. I also used XDebug 2. With versions other than PDT R2. XDebug 2. 0. 3, there may be subtle differences from what I wrote here, or things may not work. Thanks I just ran sudo aptget install mariadbserver on a relatively new server running one new WordPress install and didnt miss a beat during the install It turns out that uninstalling Apache2 web server is not as straightforward as installing it. You will need to remove Apache2 package itself, as well as other. tar zxvf mongodbmongodbphpdriverltcommitid. tar. gz cd mongodbmongodbphpdriverltcommitid phpize. configure make all sudo make install. Download XAMPP for Windows, Linux, and OS X. Older versions of Solaris are also available. Make sure you have the latest version of Java installed. Make sure you have ApachePHP installed such as using the XAMPP packageDownload XDebug. Go to the XDebug page. On right side of page, click on one of the Windows modules that matches your PHP version. Download the. dll file and remember its file name the directory that you saved it in I save it in c xamppphpext. Install XDebug. Open your php. In XAMPP, the default location for the php. If not using XAMPP, you can find the location of php. Either uncomment recent versions of XAMPP have this in php. Note substitute the right pathfilename for your xdebug dll fileXDebug. Only Zend OR XDebug. C xamppphpextphpxdebug. Modify the filename below to reflect the. C xamppphpextphpxdebug 2. IP here. xdebug. remoteport9. C xampptmp. Note that xdebug. This is not the default in the XAMPP php. I recommend changing it to 0. It was suggested to me to set this to 0 in order to not generate very large files. Comment out any Zend Optimizer in php. XDebug. For example, all of this should be commented out using Zend. C xamppphpzend. OptimizerlibZend. Extension. Manager. C xamppphpzend. OptimizerlibOptimizer. Restart your webserver for the php. Test that the Xdebug install was successful. Create a. php file that calls phpinfoOpen the. Check for XDebug in the phpinfo page. Download Eclipse PDT. Go to the Eclipse PDT Download page. On the download page, click the link for the latest release build in the Build Name column. On the release build page, select the windows ZIP file in the PDT All in One Package area. On the mirror selection page, choose a mirror to download from and download the. Install Eclipse PDT all in one. There is no install. Unzip the all in one zip file to a temporary directory. Move the eclipse directory created during unzip to c eclipse I tried using c Program Fileseclipse instead of c eclipse, but it didnt seem to work for me, so use c eclipse. Execute Eclipse for the first time Setup XDebug. Execute the c eclipseeclipse. Workspace Launcher dialog box will appear, I just keep the default and press OKWelcome screen, click on Workbench icon on right side towards the middle. Eclipse Workbench, do Window Open Perspective PHPFile New PHP Project. Project Name assign a name such as Server docrootProject Contents uncheck Default, and browse to the document root of your web server. Click FinishYoull now see a screen that gives you 2 options, choose the 1st option Create project in directory. Name Deleting the project will delete the entire directory. Name folder, and click OK. Dont ever delete this project from eclipse or it will delete your entire docroot. Change to PHP Debug Perspective Window Open Perspective PHP Debug. Window Web Browser. If 0 Internal Web Browser is available, you can choose that to have the browser inside eclipse. I have found that this option is only present if IE is running before eclipse is launched, otherwise this option is not available. If 0 Internal Web Browser is not available, I found that 0 Default system Web Browser doesnt seem to work for me and that I have to choose either Firefox or IE in order for debugging to work. If you really want to use the internal web browser, then quit out of eclipse, launch IE, and then launch eclipse again. The internal web browser option should be available now. If your webserver is on a remote machine, do the following now. Do Window Preferences. PHP PHP Servers Window Click NewName Provide a name to refer to this server in eclipse. URL Enter the URL of the document root of the remote server. Click Next Server Path Mapping Window Click Add Path on Server if the docroot on the server is at c xampphtdocs on the server machine, then put that here, otherwise put the docroot path of the server remember, c is the servers c driveClick on the radio for Path in Workspace and press the Browse button. Select the workspace resource corresponding to the docroot should be the only thing listed this should be the name of the PHP project that you provided earlier this guide used the project name Server docroot, and click OKClick OK in Add New Path Mapping windowClick Finish in PHP Server Creation window. At this point, you might see a window titledUser Operation is Waiting, just be patient until this window disappears on its own before going to the next step. Click OK in the Preferences PHP Servers window. Run Open Debug Dialog. Double click PHP Web PageNew configuration is created as a sub item under PHP Web Page, highlight itServer Debugger should be XDebugPHP Server choose Default Web Server if your web server is on the same machine or the remote server that you created earlier. File Browse to a file in the project that should be launched in the browser for the debug session. If Auto Generate is checked localhost example, remote server example, a URL to the chosen file on the server should be auto generated and should look correct. If not or if you want to add GET parameters, then it needs to be manually edited after de selecting auto generate to match the correct URL. Click ApplyClick CloseRun debug session. Do either Run Debug or F1. If a window pops up at this point which states The selection cannot be launched, and there are no recent launches, then do the following. Run Open Debug Dialog. Highlight New configuration under PHP Web Page, Click the Debug button. If the debug session isnt starting, and you are seeing in the lower right corner Launching NewConfiguration with a progress bar that keeps moving, then, then do the following. Click the button to the right of the progress bar. Now in the right pane youll see a red square button, click it to get out of this faulty debug session. If the web browser came up with the page you are trying to debug, it means XDebug is not installed on the server properly. Go back and get XDebug installed on the server and try again. One common mistake that causes this to occur is that you may have modified the wrong php. You can test if XDebug is installed properly by opening a. XDebug is in the resulting page make sure this is the case. Also, make sure that xdebug. If the web browser did not come up, then in the pull down menus, do Window Web BrowserIf it is set to Default system Web Browser, then this is the problem and you must switch off of it. If 0 Internal Web Browser is available, choose it.