There's a shed-load of similar questions and answers out there.
Almost all can be dismissed as referring to Xdebug v2. I am using Xdebug 3.0.0 Release date: 2020-11-25, and everyone else should probably be updating too.
I am trying to achieve in VSC, what I can do in PhpStorm, where I can breakpoint a line of a PHP file which will be invoked as an AJAX call from a JS app which I run in my browser and he IDE will stop on the breakpoint. The important detail here is that I do not run the PHP from the IDE, but from the browser, which builds a rather complex HTTP GET request.
If VSC cannot do that, please post an answer to that effect, and I will give up.
However, since PhpStorm can do it, why not VSC? I imagine that it is mainly a matter of configuration, if VSC or Xdebug has a listener.
This works for PhpStorm:
from PHP.ini:
[Xdebug]
; ---- new, for Xdebug v3, see https://stackoverflow.com/questions/65280429/how-to-configure-xdebug-for-jetbrains-phpstorm-2020-1
; ----- see https://xdebug.org/docs/upgrade_guide
zend_extension = "e:\coding\Web_development\php\php\ext\php_xdebug-3.0.1-7.3-vc15-x86_64.dll"
xdebug.mode=debug,develop
xdebug.client_host=127.0.0.1
xdebug.remote_port=9000
xdebug.start_with_request=yes
xdebug.idekey="xdebug"
xdebug.log=m:\xdebug.log
the URL passed in the AJAX request includes XDEBUG_SESSION_START=xdebug as a GET parameter.
Anything else that I need to post? Since it works for PhpStorm, I imagine that I just need to configure VSC - but, how?
