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1 Contents ...................................................................................................................................... 2
2 XDebug Support User Guide ....................................................................................................... 3
2.1 Determining the correct INI file to update .............................................................................. 3
2.2 Required configuration of XDebug ........................................................................................ 3
2.3 Getting debug information. .................................................................................................... 5
2.4 Configuring XDebug support in PDT ..................................................................................... 6
2.4.1 Transfer Encoding ......................................................................................................... 6
2.4.2 Output encoding ........................................................................................................... 7
2.4.3 Step Filtering page ........................................................................................................ 7
2.4.4 Workbench Options ....................................................................................................... 7
2.4.5 Installed Debuggers ....................................................................................................... 8
2.4.6 Multisession ................................................................................................................. 10
2.4.7 Accept Remote Session (JIT) ...................................................................................... 10
2.4.8 Output Capture Settings .............................................................................................. 11
2.4.9 Proxy Support .............................................................................................................. 12
2.4.10 Configuring your web browser ................................................................................... 13
2.4.11 Testing your configuration ......................................................................................... 13
2.5 Debugging using XDebug ................................................................................................... 14
2.5.1 Debugging standalone scripts launched by PDT. ........................................................ 14
2.5.2 Debugging a web based application ............................................................................ 16
2.5.3 Debugging using Remote Session initiation ................................................................ 22
2.5.4 Advanced Path Mapping .............................................................................................. 24
2.6 Breakpoint support .............................................................................................................. 26
2.6.1 Conditional Breakpoint support .................................................................................... 27
2.7 The debug views ................................................................................................................. 29
2.7.1 Strings in the variables view ........................................................................................ 31
2.7.2 Hover ........................................................................................................................... 33
2.7.3 Expression view ........................................................................................................... 33
2.8 Other known issues ............................................................................................................ 34
2.9 Tips ..................................................................................................................................... 35
2.9.1 Launch waiting for debug session ............................................................................... 35
2.9.2 Watch Expressions returning Objects/Arrays .............................................................. 36
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