I'm doing development on our remote server. In PhpStorm I set up the SSH connection, it installed the headless PhpStorm on the remote server and opened the JetBrains Client. Everything is working fine, but I have some problem with debugging via Xdebug.
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I was happy with PhpStorm. We had a productive relationship. Its basic rules was simple, as simple as many text editor in the computing world. You use a mouse, you click where you want to change or add something, somewhere. The basic editor. We are all used to that from the beginning of times!
I loved the auto completion with PhpStorm! I loved the fact that you could find easily a peculiar file even within a massive codebase. I loved its stability. I liked the snippets. I loved its numerous options to refactor, generate getter / properties / methods using one or two handy shortcuts.
He was a PHP developer hired in the company I was working for. I was curious, I began to look what tools and IDE he was using, expecting seeing the good old PhpStorm, like every good PHP developer who suffered too much with Eclipse.
Vim! This dinosaur! This boring terminal editor! So complex nobody knows how to use it, except the perfect nerd without life / girlfriend / whatever real things!How can he compares the wonderful shiny PhpStorm with this relic?
Quickly I began to understand the power of this typing method. You feel definitely faster and more in control of your computer. A very cool sensation!I knew as well that Vim was designed for this type of typing. Due to the pleasure I had with my new typing techniques, I slowly decided to give Vim a chance.
This is Vim: you can learn to be productive with it in a couple of minutes (I promise). Get used to it may take a bit more time, and then you will learn new stuff all your life. The whole editor feel so logical that you will come up with new way to do things without even asking Google. Yes, by yourself, only!
Take the configurations available on the web as inspirations. Copy them little by little, plugin by plugin. Test it, try to understand what the plugin is doing. Take your time. Read the plugin documentations. In short: do everything with Vim you should do as a developer. Analyzing, acting step by step and see if it suits your need.
I also use PHPStorm as my main IDE, and love its Remote Interpreter feature. So far, PHPUnit is the only feature that supports it, as Composer and PHP Codesniffer requires having a local PHP interpreter installed in order to be used. This kind of defeats the purpose of the Composer/PHP Codesniffer tools within PHPStorm when used with Vagrant. Jetbrains claims they have no plans to add this feature in the near future.
The only one I wouldn't be able to set up a Shared Folder to is the composer.phar file which is needed to run the Composer tool within PHPStorm, because there is no composer.phar file within my VM, as its just an executable in /usr/local/bin/composer as I described earlier. So would the solution be to download a composer.phar file to somewhere within my host directory? Will this interfere the Composer install on the VM?
Did you like this? Would you be interested in more content about testing with test-driven development, behavior-driven development, performance-driven development? Or tools like PHPUnit or Behat? Or workflows I use in PhpStorm? Comment and let me know!
I have a Magento 2 project which has a Docker environment and we're running it on Docker. It is running fine but for debugging some issues I opened it with PhpStorm and now want to integrate Xdebug for docker environment.
In my last post, I talked about how to configure Xdebug in VSCode with Docker. Now, I would like to share how we can build upon our previous Dockerfile in such a way that Xdebug can run directly from Docker and also connect it with PhpStorm.
So, why is this so important? Recent research from JetBrains shows that 62% of PHP developers debug their code using var_dump(), die(), dd(), and dump(). From my perspective, there is nothing wrong with that. Even if you do it by choice and not because you lack knowledge.
I'm included in the 62% of developers who debug their code with auxiliary functions instead of using a full-featured debug solution such as Xdebug. I'm a heavy Neovim user, and I didn't adapt quite well to using Neovim with Xdebug; to me, it is just easier and faster to use my code snippets around the dd() function.
But occasionally, I catch myself in situations where it would be faster to jump into PhpStorm and just use Xdebug, especially when I'm working with other people who aren't familiar with Vim or Neovim.
Even though the content of the file got shown, I intentionally didn't explain its content so that we could explore the debugging topic all at once, going all the way from configuring Xdebug to using it with an IDE.
- develop
Enables Development Helpers, including the overloaded var_dump().
- coverage
Enables Code Coverage Analysis to generate code coverage reports, mainly with PHPUnit.
- debug
Enables step-debugging. This can be used to step through your code while it is running, and analyze the values of variables.
- profile
Enables Profiling, with which you can analyze performance bottlenecks with tools like CacheGrind.
Controls which IDE key Xdebug should pass on to the debugging client or proxy. The IDE Key is only important for use with the DBGp Proxy Tool, although some IDEs are incorrectly picky as to what its value is. The default is based on the DBGP_IDEKEY environment setting. If it is not present, the default falls back to an empty string.
The functionality starts when the PHP request starts, and before any PHP code gets executed. For example, xdebug.mode=trace and xdebug.start_with_request=yes, start a function trace for the whole request.
Once you have correctly found your IP address, you can place it into xdebug.client_host as mentioned before, and that will leave you with a directive looking similar to this: xdebug.client_host=192.168.0.158.
In summary, you've instructed Xdebug to start with a request and try to send the debug events to the host with the IP 192.168.0.158 on port 9003. Since the IP represents your computer, when configuring PhpStorm to connect to Xdebug, the configuration will be extremely similar to when connecting to localhost.
As you may already know, PhpStorm is a proprietary, cross-platform IDE for PHP, built by the Czech Republic-based company JetBrains. PhpStorm provides an editor for PHP, HTML, and JavaScript with on-the-fly code analysis, error prevention, and automated refactorings for PHP and JavaScript code.
Next, a form will open, and there, fill the Name with your Remote Debug configuration; next, check the Filter debug connection by IDE key option and then select the Server previously created; and finally, fill the IDE key (session id) with the same value that got used at the xdebug.idekey directive at our .docker/xdebug.ini. More details are in the illustration below:
It looks as if the models have updated with all the comments as expected. I re-ran the ide-helper (once I created the model comments) to regenerate the help file but no impact. For example if I get a method not found with a user model on code such as $user->name where $user is a model
I can ignore the warnings but it's a bit frustrating to have so many yellow warnings in a controller to the point if I ignore them I'll probably miss the error that counts. (can you tell phpstorm to ignore a particular error/warning?) {possibly found it under settings]
Today, developers are increasingly asked to do more with less time. Luckily, the tools that support PHP development, like IDEs, offer increased coding efficiency, and streamlined debugging processes. In this article, we'll look at the role that IDEs play in debugging, and how PHPStorm and Zend Server can combine for a streamlined PHP debugging experience.
Left-shift is a term that has been given to the process of moving defect isolation to the left of the overall Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) such that defects are found during development rather than follow-on Quality Assurance (QA) and testing processes of the SDLC. Left-shifting defect isolation and resolution can dramatically decrease the overall SDLC time-cycle which has a subsequent reduction in the cost of software development and also results in quicker time-to-market with new products, features, and functions.
When it comes to PHP there are a number of IDEs that can be used in the development process including Zend Studio, Visual Studio Code, Eclipse, and many others. IDEs tend to share a common set of functions including code-completion, code-hints, and step-wise debugging. When working in the Zend Server environment it's important to have an IDE that can integrate with the functionality that Zend Server provides and that is where the topic of this blog comes into play. While many IDEs have integration capabilities with Zend Server, this blog will concentrate on PHPStorm, the popular PHP IDE from JetBrains.
The capabilities that Zend Server provides for assisting with the development process are fairly robust and they become even more beneficial when Zend Server is integrated with an IDE. As an example, the Dashboard and Monitoring pages of Zend Server show events that have been detected by the Application Server. From the events a number of IDE actions are provided including Debug, Profile, and Export. These types debug-related functions are available from the code-trace function of Zend Server as well.
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