Installing XDebug on Windows + XAMPP + VSCode
So i'm not the most proficient PHP guy out there. In fact i have been a .NET developer most of my life. Being so i am so used to having a formidable debugger at my disposal as we were raised on Visual Studio which has excellent debugging capabilities. Because of that fact the first thing i wanted to setup when i was handed a PHP project was setting up Debugging ! I asked some of friends and most of them were using some sort of printing mechanism but no , your boi gaba does not get down like that so i decided to setup debugging and ended up going for XDEBUG which i absolutely loved! My setup was Windows 10 + XAMPP + VSCode as the IDE ,working on a Laravel project. So when i first setup XDEBUG on my machine , i followed this great article which taught me how to set things up. After setting up i used and enjoyed XDEBUG to the fullest for about a year on my machine. Then today , i had to transfer to a new computer so i decided to set up my beloved XDEBUG on my new machine. I did