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Configuring a Debugging Engine

This feature is supported in the Ultimate edition only.

The following is only valid when PHP Plugin is installed and enabled!

This section describes how to configure two most popular tools used in PHP debugging:

These tools cannot be used simultaneously because they block each other. To avoid this problem, you need to update the corresponding sections in the php.ini file. To open the active php.ini file in the editor:

  1. Open the Settings / Preferences Dialog by pressing Ctrl+Alt+S or by choosing File | Settings for Windows and Linux or IntelliJ IDEA | Preferences for macOS, and click PHP under Languages & Frameworks.
  2. On the PHP page that opens, click browseButton.png next to the CLI Interpreter field.
  3. In the CLI Interpreters dialog box that opens, the Configuration File read-only field shows the path to the active php.ini file. Click Open in Editor.

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Last modified: 29 November 2017

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