Open your browser and open your localhost Moodle site.įinal note: Every time you start the webserver container, ONLY if you're using a linux host, you have to run the script for adding the .įinal note 2: This method also works if your docker containers are in a different host from localhost: you just need to specify the proper server name and port.įinal note 3: This configuration also allows you to debug CLI scripts.

Press telephone icon with a red symbol with title 'Start listening for PHP Debug Connections': telephone should appear with some waves now.

Set for your 'Project files' Moodle root the 'Absolute path on the server' as '/var/www/html'.

Port: must be the port you're using for the web server.

Configuration: check 'Filter debug connection by IDE key'.

Make sure you have the same port that you configured previously in the 'XDEBUGCONFIG' environment variable. In PHPStorm, go to File -> Settings -> Languages and Frameworks -> PHP > Debug. At my workplace, we use PHPStorm as an IDE, and our local environment is Wamp (the headline says for dummies). The first thing you should do is to check your Debug settings. In this webinar recording, Gary Hockin covers the fundamentals of installing and configuring Xdebug, configuring PhpStorm to listen to Xdebug, and then goes.

Name: 'xdebug localhost' (or what you want to) When I was asked to install Xdebug on my environment at work, I found multiple guides on the web.

From the main Moodle directory open terminal and run:.

You can work on Javascript development by add Grunt configuration: Note: click on the link to download the necessary drivers directly from IDE.Click '+' in the top left and add 'Database source' for your database.Click on the 'Database' tab to see the database window.' and select your new PHPUnit configuration to run Click 'Use alternative configuration file' and select your phpunit.xml file.Add PHPUnit configuration by clicking on '+'.Tell PHPStorm where is composer - go to 'Preferences / PHP / Composer', fill in 'Path to PHP executable', 'Path to composer.phar', 'Path to composer.json' and make sure the option 'Add packages as libraries' is enabled.

You can deactivate warnings for specific exceptions (in particular the coding_exception, which is unlikely to be catched in your code) by going to Settings > PHP and add them to 'Unchecked Exceptions' under the 'Analysis' tabįollow the instructions in the README PHPUnit integration.(more info:, and a 'feature request' to improve it: ) So you have phpstorm and you want to debug your app step by step using Xdebug Install Xdebug for PHP Homebrew make things simple. 'mdl_', // all ` to Tools > Databases > user parameters

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