Question

I know these ways of starting Xdebug:

?XDEBUG_SESSION_START=name in url

xdebug.remote_autostart=On in php.ini

-dxdebug.remote_autostart=On as parameter to the PHP binary call

but I do not know how to start xdebug inside code, is there any function like xdebug_start() and xdebug_stop() ?

Answer 1

In order to start the debugging somewhere else in your PHP code than at the start, you need to set xdebug.remote_mode=jitin php.ini. Then when you call xdebug_break the debugging session will start.