New to debugging in PhpStorm? Check out the Ultimate Debugging Guide or this Quickstart video on getting started with debugging in Docker. Now, set a breakpoint directly in your template file, just like you would with a PHP file, and begin step debugging! Before proceeding with any of the debugging scenarios, you need to choose a debugging engine and install it in your PHP environment. In the case of Laravel, just make sure you’re using version 5.8 or later, and you’re good to go. This section provides a handful selection of tutorials that will help you get started with PHP debugging in PhpStorm.

In the case of Twig, you also need to set the following configuration options:

In PhpStorm, go to Settings/Preferences | Languages & Frameworks | PHP | Debug | Templates and specify the directories where your compiled files are stored:.

Luckily, things have changed, and you can now debug your template files directly – there’s no difference between them and regular PHP files in this regard. So before PhpStorm 2019.1, your only option was to identify the compiled file, something like b84f5d6c0f0d85bb9187843.php, locate the line you want to place a breakpoint on, and then debug this file instead. CodeSniffer (phpcs.bat) is a tool you can enable in PHPstorm that is actually an external PHP script that runs every 3-5 seconds. I'm also using CodeSniffer to check my code style. Now add a breakpoint in your code which you want to debug. This will stop at every request even if you don’t set a breakpoint. It’s also a good idea to activate Break at first line of PHP scripts. They are first compiled into regular PHP and saved to a cache directory, and then the application runs those compiled files. I have debugging working in PHPStorm with Xdebug and my local apache webserver. We can now open our PhpStorm project and enable the debugging mode in Run, Start Listening for PHP Debug Connections.

for me that would be 'debug on' and 'debug off' as i dont do profiling but sometimes quickly want to toggle between debugging and not. The problem was that template files are not the files your application runs. 5 stars if there will be a hotkey which toggles between a list of desired states. In PhpStorm 2019.1, we’ve implemented debugging of Twig and Blade templates.

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