Find your php.ini and look for XDebug. Set xdebug autostart to false xdebug.remote_autostart=0 xdebug.remote_enable=0 Disable your profiler xdebug.profiler_enable=0 Note that there can be a performance loss even with xdebug disabled but loaded. To disable loading of the extension itself, you need to comment it in your php.ini. Find an entry looking like this: zend_extension = … Read more
Increase the value of xdebug.max_nesting_level in your php.ini
You can pass INI settings with the -d flag: php -d xdebug.profiler_enable=On script.php.
These are configurable variables in php.ini: ; with sane limits xdebug.var_display_max_depth = 10 xdebug.var_display_max_children = 256 xdebug.var_display_max_data = 1024 ; with no limits ; (maximum nesting is 1023) xdebug.var_display_max_depth = -1 xdebug.var_display_max_children = -1 xdebug.var_display_max_data = -1 Of course, these may also be set at runtime via ini_set(), useful if you don’t want to modify … Read more
Try Eclipse PDT to setup an Eclipse environment that has debugging features like you mentioned. The ability to step into the code is a much better way to debug then the old method of var_dump and print at various points to see where your flow goes wrong. When all else fails though and all I … Read more