Lack of documentation for kdev-xdebug plugin

[Kevin Funk]

On Tuesday, 19 December 2017 13:00:06 CET santilin wrote:
> Hi all, I have been striving to debug php with xdebug and the
> kdev-xdebug plugin for a while and I was to give up when I found a good
> documentation in the counterpart plugin for code :(.

Heya!

Thanks a lot for the patience and still going through the necessary setup and 
even then coming back to us notifying us about the lacking documentation. 
Great!

I don't know PHP debugging myself, but it would be super helpful if you could 
put up your notes on the KDE UserBase Wiki for KDevelop: 
  https://userbase.kde.org/KDevelop5/Manual

Probably some extra section specifically for kdev-xdebug would be appropriate, 
like: 
  https://userbase.kde.org/KDevelop5/Manual/Plugins:_Code_Generation

Do you have the time and motivation to do this? That'd be appreciated.

If you need any assistance, just ping us in #kdevelop on Freenode [1]

Regards,
Kevin

[1] https://www.kdevelop.org/contribute-kdevelop

> I would like to add that information to the kdevelop plugin so that
> other users can debug without problems. The relevant intormation is:
> 
> 
> Install XDebug I highly recommend you make a simple test.php file, put a
> phpinfo(); statement in there, then copy the output and paste it into
> the XDebug installation wizard. It will analyze it and give you tailored
> installation instructions for your environment. In short:
> 
>     On Windows: Download the appropiate precompiled DLL for your PHP
> version, architecture (64/32 Bit), thread safety (TS/NTS) and Visual
> Studio compiler version and place it in your PHP extension folder.
> 
>     On Linux: Either download the source code as a tarball or clone it
> with git, then compile it.
> 
> Configure PHP to use XDebug by adding zend_extension=path/to/xdebug to
> your php.ini. The path of your php.ini is shown in your phpinfo() output
> under "Loaded Configuration File".
> Enable remote debugging in your php.ini:
> 
> [XDebug]
> xdebug.remote_enable = 1
> xdebug.remote_autostart = 1
> 
> There are other ways to tell XDebug to connect to a remote debugger than
> remote_autostart, like cookies, query parameters or browser extensions.
> I recommend remote_autostart because it "just works". There are also a
> variety of other options, like the port (by default 9000), please see
> the XDebug documentation on remote debugging for more information.
> 
> If you are doing web development, don't forget to restart your webserver
> to reload the settings
> 
> Verify your installation by checking your phpinfo() output for an XDebug
> section.
> 
> Kind regards.


-- 
Kevin Funk | kfunk at kde.org | http://kfunk.org
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