xdebug won't stop at breakpoint

Question

I spend some hours to set up my IDE to debug PHP with eclipse and xdebug.. Everything is ok except the breakpoint I set on eclipse. If I double-click on a line to add a breakpoint, the debugger want not to stop.. If a add the line xdebug_break() the debugger stops well at the line...

It's maybe a problem with the configuration. Could anyone help me ?

• Eclipse: Eclipse PDT 2.2.0 All In Ones Windows 32 bits
• Xdebug: 5.3 VC6 (32 bit)
• PHP: PHP Version 5.3.3

PHP.ini

[xdebug]
xdebug.remote_enable=1
xdebug.remote_host=localhost
xdebug.remote_port=9000
xdebug.remote_handler="dbgp"
xdebug.remote_mode=req
xdebug.profiler_enable = 1
xdebug.profiler_output_dir = "c:/temp"
xdebug.collect_params = 4
xdebug.collect_return = on
xdebug.collect_vars = on

xdebug.show_local_vars = 1

Solution 1

If xdebug do not stop in any part of your code, add xdebug_break() to this part of the code.

Solution 2

There seem to be several issues that could be the root of this problem. In my case it was the fact that I thought I needed to set some path mapping.

The settings found under
rightclick-project->properties->PHP Debug
and then
server->edit->path mapping
were wrong.

I had manually added something I though was correct, but Eclipse can do this all by its self it seems. Removing the mapping made it work.

Solution 3

I’ve had a similar problem with Eclipse PDT and Xdebug. The cause was that Eclipse was listening via IPv6 but Xdebug tried to connect via IPv4:

chriki@machine:~$ netstat -an | grep 9000
tcp6       0      0 :::9000                 :::*                    LISTEN

Xdebug doesn’t seem to support IPv6, yet.

After adding the line

-Djava.net.preferIPv4Stack=true

after the -vmargs line in my eclipse.ini file, Eclipse started to listen via IPv4:

chriki@machine:~$ netstat -an | grep 9000
tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:9000            0.0.0.0:*               LISTEN

Debugging now works flawlessly.

Solution 4

I have fixed myself the problem.

On my php.ini, I have add the xdebug as an extension instead of a zend_extension.

php.ini

zend_extension=C:\EasyPHP-5.3.3\php\ext\php_xdebug.dll

Note: the path must be the full path instead of a relative path.

The debugger works great. Yummy!

Solution 5

I had the same problem. The solution is to open correct file and add breakpoint in it.

My local server is on my virtual Z: drive (I'm using denwer instead of WAMP). Z drive points to my D:/webserver folder. So I can open my file as 1) Z:/myproject/script.php and as 2) D:/webserver/myproject/script.php

For some reasons debugger stops on breakpoints only in openned Z:/myproject/script.php file.

How to test my solution??? Do next:

1. Open any php file you want to debug
2. Add xdebug_break() to any line and save file
3. Run debug

In my case after debug process has started my phpDesigner IDE open correct file in IDE and stops at xdebug_break() line. So in this new opened file you can add breakpoints and they will work. Use opened file for debug.

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