PHP Debugging With VS Code

Php debugging with XDebug

We are assuming you have xampp and VS Code already in place.

1- Install php-debug  extionsion of VS Code

2- Create a folder in xamp htdocs with any name say “demo”

3- Create a file (index.php) in your created folder xampp/htdocs/demo/index.php

4- Now navigate to localhost/demo you should see this screen

5- Goto XDebug installation vizard  and copy paste all the content in above screen and click analyse my phpinfo()

Page should show this after click

Download dll and follow the instructions shown above

Now once you have followed above instructions and restarted your server you now need to configure VS Code to listen to Xdebug

6- Configure debugging in php.ini file

In your php info search for “Loaded Configuration File”  and copy its path and paste it in your windows explorer, it will open php.ini for you

Add this at the end of this file

[XDebug]

zend_extension = C:\xampp\php\ext\php_xdebug-2.7.2-7.3-vc15-x86_64.dll

xdebug.remote_enable = 1

xdebug.remote_autostart = 1