How to Debug PHP with Vim and XDebug on Linux

Posted by Sander_Marechal on Mar 4, 2008 1:34 AM EDT
Box.net; By Sam Ghods
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Here is the scenario: You have multiple developers logged into a Linux server which is running Apache and PHP using Vim to write PHP code. They’re using error_log and echo statements to debug their code. It takes forever, it’s tedious and can result in bugs from forgotten debug statements. You stare enviously at .NET programmers with fancy debuggers (while you snicker knowing that you edit 10x faster with Vim anyways). But still, you know there has to be a better way. There is.

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