For this video, we are going to learn how to set up Xdebug with PhpStorm running a local server on DDEV. Xdebug runs on the server, as a PHP extension, so the first thing we need to do is enable Xdebug in our Docker container that is managed by DDEV.
For this video, we are going to learn how to set up Xdebug with PhpStorm running a local server on DDEV. Xdebug runs on the server, as a PHP extension, so the first thing we need to do is enable Xdebug in our Docker container that is managed by DDEV.
Fortunately, DDEV already has support for this and a command we can to toggle Xdebug on and off. This is how we can set whether we are in debug mode or not.
$ ddev xdebug enable
This enables Xdebug so it is running as a PHP extension. Now it will be available to call back to our IDE on port 9003 when it receives a HTTP request.
Debugging with Xdebug is made up of the following videos: