<h1 style='font-size:28px;color:#6aa84f;'>Xdebug: install on windows with PHP 7</h1>

Part I Installation of Xdebug

To prepare the usage of xdebug for php in phpstorm, for using a much better debugworkflow then var_dump or Zend_Debug::dump(),  we have to build and install the php extension.

Prerequisits

Installed IIS or apache, php7

Build xdebug for your system

At the moment I wrote this post i have to build xdebug 2.4.x

1. Download php_xdebug-2.4.1-7.0-vc14-nts-x86_64.dll
2. Move the downloaded file to "C:\Program Files\PHP\v7.0\ext"
3. Edit C:\Program Files\PHP\v7.0\php.ini and add the line
   zend_extension = "C:\Program Files\PHP\v7.0\ext\php_xdebug-2.4.1-7.0-vc14-nts-x86_64.dll 
   xdebug.remote_enable=true
   xdebug.remote_host=127.0.0.1
   xdebug.remote_port=9000
   xdebug.remote_handler=dbgp
   xdebug.profiler_enable=1
   xdebug.idekey=PHPSTORM "
4. Restart the webserver

Thats pretty much it. At last, we want to check the build and the installation

Check the installation

Create a info.php

add following line to the info.php
<?php phpinfo();

- open a phpinfo.php in your browser and copy the whole html content.
- visit https://xdebug.org/wizard.php  and paste the content into the textarea there.

on the follwing screen you should see a message like that:

Xdebug installed: 2.4.1

Server API: CGI/FastCGI

Windows: yes - Compiler: MS VC14 - Architecture: x64

Zend Server: no

PHP Version: 7.0.9

Zend API nr: 320151012

PHP API nr: 20151012

Debug Build: no

Thread Safe Build: no

Configuration File Path: C:\Windows

Configuration File: C:\Program Files\PHP\v7.0\php.ini

Extensions directory: C:\Program Files\PHP\v7.0\ext

You're already running the latest Xdebug version

 
Klick this link , if you want to use xdebug in a debugsession 


Thanks

Peter