Run symfony application with xdebug

run-symfony-with-xdebug.md

PHP and IDE configuration

Assume we already configured xdebug (otherwise use google).

Symfony 2.x

Shell command

This code is very similar to the command executed internally by php app/console server:run.

XDEBUG_CONFIG="idekey=phpstorm" php -S 127.0.0.1:8000 -t web/ \
    vendor/symfony/symfony/src/Symfony/Bundle/FrameworkBundle/Resources/config/router_dev.php

Load source framework classes rather than minified ones

diff --git a/web/app_dev.php b/web/app_dev.php
index f973a04..829d972 100755
--- a/web/app_dev.php
+++ b/web/app_dev.php
@@ -17,7 +17,8 @@ if (isset($_SERVER['HTTP_CLIENT_IP'])
     exit('You are not allowed to access this file. Check '.basename(__FILE__).' for more information.');
 }
 
-$loader = require_once __DIR__.'/../app/bootstrap.php.cache';
+//$loader = require_once __DIR__.'/../app/bootstrap.php.cache';
+$loader = require_once __DIR__.'/../app/autoload.php';
 Debug::enable();
 
 require_once __DIR__.'/../app/AppKernel.php';

Symfony 3.x

Shell command

XDEBUG_CONFIG="idekey=phpstorm" APP_FRONT_CONTROLLER=web/app_dev.php php -S localhost:8002 -t web/ \
    vendor/symfony/symfony/src/Symfony/Bundle/WebServerBundle/Resources/router.php