Enable PHP Debugging – Eclipse XAMPP Chrome

Enable PHP Debugging – Eclipse XAMPP Chrome

1. Find your current php settings by performing one of the following
   1. Create a page to display the phpinfo() and copy to clipboard the source of this page
   2. In the command line run php -i and cop the output to clipboard
2. Go to http://xdebug.org/wizard.php , paste the settings collected at step 1 in the form and submit
3. Follow the instructions on the Wizard and include the zend_extension entry in the php.ini . Do not restart your server yet
4. Lets add the following instructions to make sure we set php to listen for the remote chrome plug
   xdebug.remote_enable=true
   xdebug.remote_port=9000
   xdebug.remote_handler=dbgp
5. Restart the server and inspect again the PHP info for the page or from php -i from the command line, now you should see the Xdebug module enabled there similar to the screenshot below