php debugging is bugging !

[ajoo]

Hi all, 

 

I configured my localhost to work with Xdebug and then installed the plugins to work with note++. Everything worked fine and I got the sample two line program to work from the terminal as well as from a browser (chrome)  by appending "?XDEBUG_SESSION_START=xyz" after the URL.

 

It worked fine for small programs but for my multi-page application, the appended bit simply disappeared. I guess that's because of jumping to pages on menu clicks where the url is created depending upon the menu button being clicked. Code like :

if(isset($_GET['menu_item']))
{
$menu_item = fcheckPpage($_GET['menu_item']);
switch ($menu_item)
    {
        case "menu1":
        require_once("/some/thing.php");
        break;
		
	case "menu2":
        require_once("some/thingelse.php");
        break;
...

 

Then I tried the same on firefox by first installing the plugin for it which does not require any strings to be appended to the URL. That too got working but crashed each time at the very same place when it encountered the code shown above in the code box. These are the error messages that I got

 

and 

 

 

It is clear that the the moment the application / program generated it's own url the link to the debugger is lost. Seems like a woeful limitation, I could try and append the XDEBUG... string to the end of each of the generated urls but that would not be a very pretty solution if that did work. 

 

If anyone has any suggestions or solutions or an alternative to this I will grateful. 

 

Thanks all.

Edited February 9, 2017 by ajoo

[ajoo]

Hi !

 

I found the issue. No xDebug has no limitation. 

 

It was a a configuration issue. I did not set an IDE KEY in the DBGP config.

 

So if I set my IDE KEY to 'ide_key'   then the String appended to the end of the URL should be

XDEBUG_SESSION_STRING='ide_key'.

 

That seems to fix it.

 

Thanks all. 

[requinix]

It worked fine for small programs but for my multi-page application, the appended bit simply disappeared. I guess that's because of jumping to pages on menu clicks where the url is created depending upon the menu button being clicked.

You only need the first URL to have that query string - it tells XDebug to begin the debugging session. If you lose the query string after, that's fine (and it's expected) and your debugging session will continue. So jump between pages to your heart's content.

[ajoo]

Hi requinix, 

 

Yes you are right like I found out once the xDebug worked fine. 

 

Thanks for clarifying it yet again.