Configure workspace and debug sample file
Before you can debug, let's quickly create a workspace
The fastest way to create a workspace is:
- Open a File Explorer
- Navigate to your PHP sources folder
- Drag the the top level of your sources folder and drop it on the
Workspace View inside CodeLite (in the screenshot below this folder is set to C:\Users\Eran\Documents\TestPHP):
- CodeLite will prompt you to choose the view, pick PHP
- Now, configure PHP to enable XDebug debugging. From CodeLite menu bar, click on the
PHP -> Run XDebug Setup Wizard. At the end of the wizard, copy the text and paste it inside your php.ini file.
- Make sure that you also a line similar to this in your
php.ini file: zend_extension=zend_extension=C:\php74\ext\php_xdebug.dll. So your php.ini should have section similar to this:
[xdebug]
zend_extension=C:\php74\ext\php_xdebug.dll
xdebug.remote_enable=1
xdebug.idekey="codeliteide"
xdebug.remote_host=127.0.0.1
xdebug.remote_port=9000
- Next, change directory to the workspace folder (in my case it was:
C:\Users\Eran\Documents\TestPHP and start PHP debug web server like this:
cd C:\Users\Eran\Documents\TestPHP
C:\php74\php.exe -S 127.0.0.1:80 -t .
- Create a test file named
test.php under the workspace folder C:\Users\Eran\Documents\TestPHP with this sample code:
<?php
$test123 = "hello world";
$arr = [];
$arr[] = "Hello";
$arr[] = "World";
function baz($i) {
echo $i."<br>";
}
function foo($i) {
baz($i);
}
for($i = 0; $i < 10; $i++){
foo($i);
}
- Place a breakpoint at the
for loop (keyboard shortcut F9)
- Click on the
Wait for debugger to connect button
- When you hit ENTER, CodeLite should capture the call and the debug session starts
