To teach you how to configure xdebug_php skills in Phpstorm.

This tutorial applies to users of Laravel projects and uses homestead as the virtual machine for the development environment by default.

1. Confirm that you have installed the Xdebug

By ssh logging in homestead to your, executing

ls /etc/php5/fpm/conf.d

If you see 20-xdebug.ini the configuration item, the description Xdebug is loaded correctly, as shown in the following figure:

2. Configure Xdebug.ini

Enter your directory by using the following command xdebug.ini :

cd /etc/php5/mods-available

You can use Vim to edit it, zend_extension=xdebug.so adding the following lines below a line:

xdebug.remote_enable = onxdebug.remote_connect_back = onxdebug.idekey = "vagrant"

Save, exit, and then rebootphp-fpm

sudo service php5-fpm restart

3. Configure Phpstorm

Open your Laravel project in Phpstorm, click on the cmd + , exhale preferences, find PHP Servers it below, and configure it as follows:

/path/to/laravel    ==> /home/vagrant/path/to/laravel/path/to/laravel/public ==> /home/vagrant/path/to/laravel/public

The folders configured here correspond to the Homestead.yaml files that are mapped. When you are finished setting, Apply.

Then go back to the navigation bar, find Run -> Edit Configurations it, add one PHP Web Application . As shown in figure:

4. To test

To app/routes.php write an instance code:

Route::get('/', function(){  $a = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5];  array_pop($a);});

Then add a breakpoint to each row, then Run --> Debug , select the previous set Homestead , and if you see the image below, congratulations.

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