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{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","headline":"Update README PHP setup with Xdebug","articleBody":"I went through the steps of installing xdebug and vdebug to debug my php setup and I couldn't, for the life of me get a debugger session working. I was getting the same error log over and over again:\r\n\r\n```\r\n[60807] Log opened at 2022-10-20 12:14:47.026666\r\n[60807] [Step Debug] DEBUG: Found 'XDEBUG_CONFIG' ENV variable\r\n[60807] [Step Debug] INFO: Connecting to configured address/port: 127.0.0.1:9000.\r\n[60807] [Step Debug] INFO: Connected to debugging client: 127.0.0.1:9000 (through xdebug.client_host/xdebug.client_port). :-)\r\n[60807] [Step Debug] -\u003e \u003cinit xmlns=\"urn:debugger_protocol_v1\" xmlns:xdebug=\"https://xdebug.org/dbgp/xdebug\" fileuri=\"{some_file_path}\" language=\"PHP\" xdebug:language_version=\"8.1.10\" protocol_version=\"1.0\" appid=\"60807\" idekey=\"xdebug\"\u003e\u003cengine version=\"3.1.5\"\u003e\u003c![CDATA[Xdebug]]\u003e\u003c/engine\u003e\u003cauthor\u003e\u003c![CDATA[Derick Rethans]]\u003e\u003c/author\u003e\u003curl\u003e\u003c![CDATA[https://xdebug.org]]\u003e\u003c/url\u003e\u003ccopyright\u003e\u003c![CDATA[Copyright (c) 2002-2022 by Derick Rethans]]\u003e\u003c/copyright\u003e\u003c/init\u003e\r\n\r\n[60807] [Step Debug] -\u003e \u003cresponse xmlns=\"urn:debugger_protocol_v1\" xmlns:xdebug=\"https://xdebug.org/dbgp/xdebug\" status=\"stopping\" reason=\"ok\"\u003e\u003c/response\u003e\r\n\r\n[60807] [Step Debug] WARN: 2022-10-20 12:14:47.028073: There was a problem sending 179 bytes on socket 6: Broken pipe.\r\n[60807] Log closed at 2022-10-20 12:14:47.028225\r\n```\r\n\r\nThere were 2 reasons:\r\n1. The VdebugSetupPHP section includes a helper script to start a debugging session:\r\n\r\n```bash\r\n#!/bin/bash\r\nexport XDEBUG_CONFIG=\"idekey=xdebug\"\r\n/usr/bin/php \"$@\"\r\n```\r\n\r\nhowerver, the [xdebug docs](https://xdebug.org/docs/step_debug#activate-debugger-cmd) also state that `XDEBUG_SESSION=1` should be set, otherwise the debug session doesn't seem to start. So the php-xdebug script should be:\r\n\r\n```bash\r\n#!/bin/bash\r\nexport XDEBUG_SESSION=1\r\nexport XDEBUG_CONFIG=\"idekey=xdebug\" # found out that this is not really needed\r\n/usr/bin/php \"$@\"\r\n```\r\n\r\n2. The VdebugSetupPHP section says that we should set our host_port to 9000, but as stated [here](https://bugs.xdebug.org/view.php?id=2017)  (I honestly don't understand the why, yet) that is wrong, and should be on a port different than 9000 (like 9003, the default xdebug port) and in the `.vimrc` we'd need to add the following lines:\r\n\r\n```bash\r\nlet g:vdebug_options = {}\r\nlet g:vdebug_options[\"port\"] = 9003 # same as port defined for xdebug\r\n```\r\n\r\nnow, starting a debug session with `php-xdebug` works as expected :)","author":{"url":"https://github.com/shadydealer","@type":"Person","name":"shadydealer"},"datePublished":"2022-10-20T12:43:55.000Z","interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":"https://schema.org/CommentAction","userInteractionCount":1},"url":"https://github.com/516/vdebug/issues/516"}