xDebug with VS Code

trellis
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I just wanted to document my settings here for getting xDebug to run in Visual Studio Code with Lima (on OSX)

I’m running xDebug version 3.x.x

For my launch.json I have the following config block for “Listen for debug”

            "name": "Listen for Xdebug",
            "type": "php",
            "request": "launch",
            "stopOnEntry": true,
            "port": 9003,
            "pathMappings": {
                "/srv/www/projectname.com/current": "${workspaceFolder}/site"
            }
        }

"stopOnEntry": can also be set to false depending on what you want. I sent it to true to just initially test it was working but then turned it to false.

Then I need to align the ide_key of vscode to that of my browser plugin which is the xDebug Chrome Extension (https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/xdebug-chrome-extension/oiofkammbajfehgpleginfomeppgnglk)

You can find the value VSCode is expecting in this settings variable php.debug.idekey and for me it is set to vsc. You then need to update this in the Chrome extension settings to match. Mine was originally set to PHPSTORM.

Once this is all done, activate “Debug” mode in the Chrome extension, start the debugger and reload the page in the browser.

I hope this is useful to someone.

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i noticed one improvement regarding the path mappings it should not include the web directory. The main post has been corrected.