How to setup PhpStorm to use Xdebug. Plus how to turn on Xdebug on Acquia Dev Desktop and DrupalVM

1. Drupal Development with
PhpStorm and Xdebug
April 1st, 2017

2. Senior Software Engineer
Started with ICFOlson in Nov. 2015
First dive into Drupal was in 2011
Considered primarily a backend
developer
Certified as Drupal 8 Sitebuilder
Certified as Drupal 8 Developer

3. Code Formatting
Code Sniffing/Linting
Enforce Drupal Coding Standards
Code Completion
Drupal Support/Documentation
Integrated Drush Console/Commands
Xdebug

4. How to setup PhpStorm for Drupal Development
Documentation from JetBrains
http://bit.ly/2opl58E

5. Lets Prepare PhpStorm for Xdebug
In PhpStorm, go to the PhpStorm > Preferences menu.
Under Languages and frameworks, expand PHP.
Click Debug. In the xdebug section, select Can accept external
connections. Confirm that the Debug port is set to the default value of port
9000.
Click OK to save your changes.
Go to View and click Toolbar, which has an icon for turning listening on and off

7. Lets prepare Acquia Dev Desktop to include
Xdebug
Open the Acquia Dev Desktop > Preferences menu.
In the Config tab, under Stack configuration files, find the php.ini path for the
version of PHP that you are using, and then click the Edit link next to it.
Your php.ini file will open in a text editor. Search for a line that
contains xdebug.so and uncomment it by removing the ; (semicolon) at the
beginning of the line
zend_extension="/Applications/DevDesktop/php5_5/ext/xdebug.so”
Add “xdebug.remote_enable=1” to your php.ini file

9. Continued…...
Add your Acquia Dev Desktop website as a project in PhpStorm
Configure remote debug
In the Run menu, select Edit Configurations.
In the Run/Debug Configurations window,
click the plus sign (+) to add a new configuration,
and then select PHP Remote Debug.

10. Continued…
In the Name field, provide a meaningful name.
Click the box next to the Server list to add a new server.
Provide a meaningful name for the server.
Add the hostname and port that your local website uses under Acquia Dev
Desktop.
Ensure that the Debugger selector is set to Xdebug.
Click OK to save your server configuration.
Confirm that your new server is selected in the Server list, and then click OK to

11. And Finally

12. How to setup DrupalVm to include Xdebug
Documentation
http://docs.drupalvm.com/en/latest/extras/xdebug/
Config File
https://github.com/geerlingguy/drupal-vm/blob/master/example.config.yml

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