This will launch the default workbench browser with the URL and stop at the first line index.php (this is configurable via the Debug configuration):

To debug your script, all you need to do is right-clicking the index.php file and select Debug as -> PHP Web Application.

Now let's create a new empty PHP project named 'MyProject' in the default PHP server and a simple index.php in the root of the project. The new project will be created in a subfolder of the Local Web Root of the selected server, not When creating a new PHP project, you will now see a 3rd option named Create project on local server. So the first thing to do is to open the PHP Servers preference page, and set the Local Web Root to the DocumentRoot The default PHP server is and has no Local Web Root set. Typically you will set the Local Web Root of the default PHP server ( to the DocumentRoot of your local Web server (e.g. The script index.php in the root of your Project with the default PHP Server, PDT will launch a debug session in a browser with the URL If the Local Web Root property of a server is set, you can choose the Server as the base-directory in the New PHP Project dialog (see screenshot below). When you start a debug session, the Base URL is used in conjunction with the path of the script you're debugging to determine the absolute URL to open. The following examples assume you're debugging on a local mashine, not a remote server.ĭebugging using the default DocumentRoot ( PDT provides a preference dialog to configure different PHP servers.Įach server has has a Base URL and a Local Web Root property. Is loaded by your server, use the phpinfo() method and check if you can find an Xdebug configuration section. Typically you set this value in your php.ini. The most important setting for Xdebug to work with PDT is xdebug.remote_enable = 1. To setup Xdebug as your default debugger in PDT, simply configure the Default Settings in the Debug eclipse preference page of PHP See the Installation section of the Xdebug manual for how to obtain the extension. The first step is to install Xdebug and verify that Xdebug is running. PDT has built in support for Xdebug, which allows you to step-debug through your PHP projects. Xdebug is an opensource Debugger and Profiler for PHP.

3.3 Choosing the browser to use for debugging.

3.1 Debugging using the default DocumentRoot (.

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