Notes to self that might also help you… After struggling for too long, I followed the nuclear route at Xdebug nightmare - #8 by Glauber (no longer open to replies or else I would have) as a starting point. Since it worked, I compared why it worked vs my existing PhpStorm project’s settings and the…

How to get Xdebug working on PhpStorm with PHP 8 in April 2024

ben.turner April 9, 2025, 4:31pm 2

Thank you so much for these notes @cliff !

As part of cleaning up and sunsetting Addons that are no longer needed, we created a Local Help Doc that mimics the info in this forum topic:

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