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====== Install Xdebug ====== When it comes to PHP programming having the possibility to use a debugger to track problems in your code is a necessity. One of the most popular one in the PHP ecosystem happens to be [[http://xdebug.org|XDebug]]. ===== Getting the package ===== XDebug can be [[http://xdebug.org/download.php|downloaded in a variety of versions]] or even built from [[https://github.com/derickr/xdebug|sources]]. But the Xdebug website also offers an [[http://xdebug.org/wizard.php|installation wizard]] that will help determine what to do to get XDebug working on your system. Follow the simple instructions and you'll soon have XDebug installed and running. <code> mkdir /opt/phpfarm/xdebug cd /opt/phpfarm/xdebug wget http://xdebug.org/files/xdebug-2.2.3.tgz tar -xzf xdebug-2.2.3.tgz cd xdebug-2.2.3 </code> This is where the fact that we're using phpfarm slightly changes from the XDebug wizard's advices. As we need to use the correct phpize version to prepare XDebug, instead of "simply" typing phpize, we'll specify the full path of the phpize version to use: <code> /opt/phpfarm/inst/bin/phpize-5.5.7 Configuring for: PHP Api Version: 20121113 Zend Module Api No: 20121212 Zend Extension Api No: 220121212 </code> Also a little different from the wizard, as we have various versions of PHP installed, we need to explicitly set the configuration file to use: <code> ./configure --with-php-config=/opt/phpfarm/inst/bin/php-config-5.5.7 </code>