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Kenny Wyland
Kenny Wyland

Reputation: 21880

Debug CLI PHP script in PhpStorm, cannot establish connection to Xdebug 2.6.0

I'm trying to run a CLI script in PhpStorm and use the debugger to step through it.

It took some doing, but I now have Xdebug installed and the PhpStorm CLI Interpreters dialog confirms that:

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I created a Run/Debug config and when I try to execute/debug it, the script runs all the way through without breaking at my breakpoints and I get this error at the bottom of PhpStorm:

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The PhpStorm docs say that xdebug for CLI scripts can configured with an environment variable like this:

export XDEBUG_CONFIG="remote_enable=1 remote_mode=req remote_port=9000 remote_host=127.0.0.1 remote_connect_back=0"

I've confirmed that PhpStorm sees that environment variable:

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Here is my Run/Debug config:

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I'm at a complete loss here. How can I get this thing to debug a CLI PHP script?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 827

Answers (1)

Kenny Wyland
Kenny Wyland

Reputation: 21880

Gah, I hate it when I spend a couple of hours trying to fix something and discover it's totally unrelated.

The problem was that I'm using short tags and my cli php.ini file had short_open_tag=Off. The code I'm running is normally run in a web context and the php.ini for that web context had short_open_tag=On so the code was working.

This code is an api endpoint and I needed to be able to step through and see what was going on and there's nothing that inherently requires it to run in the web context (except for the input params, but I'm faking those for testing purposes anyway).

So, my debug configuration was fine.

I discovered it by trying to reduce the problem further and further and I just tried running the code directly from a command line (php sync.php) to see that it was at least working and producing the correct output.

It wasn't producing the normal api json output, it was just echoing all of the code in the file. That's what led me down the path to realizing my stupid mistake.

Upvotes: 2

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