XDebug is a useful debugging tool for php. I recently have installed xdebug for IIS and I want to share how I was able to accomplish this.
We were originally writting our code on the server using a mapped network drive on our development box. We needed to install iis. I used the following youtube video and downloaded and installed web platform installer
To ensure everything would work, I either installed or made sure the following packages were installed.
We will use progress databases to connect to things from time to time. I needed to install progress database drivers on my development box. The following StackOverflow post details how this was done.
To install xdebug, you will need to use the following wizard and a phpinfo(); page to accomplish this. See the following xdebug Wizard
the following are the additions to my php.ini file incase it helps
extension=php_pdo_odbc.dll
extension=php_ldap.dll
extension=php_odbc.dll
[XDebug]
zend_extension = "C:\Program Files (x86)\PHP\v7.3\ext\php_xdebug-3.0.4-7.3-vc15-nts.dll"
;zend_extension = xdebug
xdebug.mode=debug
xdebug.remote_enable = 1
xdebug.remote_host=127.0.0.1
xdebug.remote_port=9000
xdebug.client_port=9000
xdebug.profiler_enable=1
xdebug.profiler_output_dir="c:\Temp"
xdebug.idekey=PHPSTORM
xdebug.remote_autostart = 1
xdebug.remote_connect_back=on
you will need to install the xdebug extension for google chrome. To debug, make sure you are in debug mode. Get Xdebug Helper
If you are using PHP Storm (Which you probably should IMHO) I used the following video to learn how it worked.