Setting Up Xdebug in XAMPP with PhpStorm

Xdebug is a PHP extension which provides debugging, profiling, code coverage, stack traces and many other capabilities.

In this succinct tutorial, I will show us how to set up Xdebug that ships with XAMPP in PhpStorm. See the steps below.

Open up php.ini (located at C:\path-to-xampp\php) for editing.

Search for [XDebug] and un-comment all its entries.


zend_extension = "C:\xampp\php\ext\php_xdebug.dll"
xdebug.profiler_append = 0
xdebug.profiler_enable = 1
xdebug.profiler_enable_trigger = 0
xdebug.profiler_output_dir = "C:\xampp\tmp"
xdebug.profiler_output_name = "cachegrind.out.%t-%s"
xdebug.remote_enable = 0
xdebug.remote_handler = "dbgp"
xdebug.remote_host = "127.0.0.1"
xdebug.trace_output_dir = "C:\xampp\tmp"

You will need to restart Apache at this point.
On PhpStorm, open the Settings by choosing File > Settings or ctrl + alt + S, then click the PHP menu.
On the PHP page, choose your PHP installation from the Interpreter drop-down list and click the Browse button next to the field.
The Interpreters dialog box would open and shows the version of the selected PHP installation and Xdebug & its version. If Debugger: Not installed is shown instead, click the reload icon close to PHP home input field.
Hit the Apply and Ok buttons and you should be good to go.

W3Guy

Setting Up Xdebug in XAMPP with PhpStorm

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