Step into debugging

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Walkthrough of installing and configuring Xdebug (xdebug.mode=debug and xdebug.discover_client_host=1), hooking it to PhpStorm, setting breakpoints and conditional breakpoints, and stepping over/into/out to inspect variables and call stacks. Demonstrates browser cookie/query activation, CLI/test debugging, and WSL2/docker quirks; shows demos that work but need the IDE listening and correct env vars. Strong warning: do not enable xdebug in production.

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1. 0:00Step debugging in PHP
2. 1:32Traditional debugging limits
3. 3:39Xdebug workflow
4. 6:25Xdebug client-server model
5. 7:49Installing Xdebug
6. 10:37Never use Xdebug in production
7. 11:18Trigger Xdebug in browser
8. 13:24Breakpoints explained
9. 14:50Live debug session demo
10. 17:42PHPStorm debugging basics
11. 19:48Debugging Laravel controllers
12. 23:21Stepping in/out functions
13. 27:18Xdebug setup challenges
14. 28:44Conditional breakpoints
15. 32:12Xdebug console bonus
16. 33:57Debugging CLI scripts/tests
17. 37:10Q&A: Performance impact
18. 38:55Q&A: Debugging API requests
19. 44:22Closing remarks

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