After all, we want you to be successful with the tools and workflows you know and love. It works exactly the same on Windows or Linux, and with WSL2 as well. You can get a working debug environment in a few minutes! We’ll walk you through it in this screencast using macOS. The combination of PhpStorm and DDEV‘s plug-and-play approach to debugging makes those configuration struggles obsolete. To learn more on upgrading to Xdebug 3, see the Upgrade guide. Xdebug 3 brings performance improvements, simplified configuration, and PHP 8 support. Enter our open source local development environment, DDEV. Download the Xdebug extension compatible with your PHP version and install it as described in the Xdebug installation guide. The way to do this will depend on your base image. In general, there are two ways to run PHP from PhpStorm using Docker: 1. The days of print-debugging are long behind us! Xdebug and PHP IDEs have made that approach unwieldy, but often the configuration between your IDE, PHP, web server, and Docker is challenging and fragile. Step 1 - Dockerize the Application Install Xdebug on your Docker container.

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