Drupal Development with PHPStorm and Xdebug

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Shows how to wire PhpStorm to Xdebug (default port 9000), enable Xdebug in Acquia Dev Desktop or DrupalVM, and set path mappings so breakpoints hit remote code; demonstrates the Chrome Xdebug helper extension to start sessions. Walks through breaking in a theme preprocess, stepping/force-stepping into functions, rerunning the request, and inspecting deep render-array values. Notes CLI vs web Xdebug differences, missing PHP7 Xdebug builds in some Dev Desktop releases, and that a bug was found and fixed in 15 minutes.

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" chapters (7)

1. 0:00Introduction and background
2. 2:53Why use PHPStorm for Drupal
3. 9:35Setting up Xdebug in PHPStorm
4. 11:42Demo time with PHPStorm
5. 27:20Real-world Xdebug use cases
6. 39:40Advanced debugging techniques
7. 44:17Q&A and troubleshooting

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