Using phpdbg with the built-in php server?
debugging, php, phpdbg
Solution
If I understand properly, `phpdbg_break` is a function provided by the interpreter, and not by any extension. Instead of using the built-in PHP server, you should use the phpdbg server, and simulate a web request. See http://phpdbg.com/docs/mocking-webserver for information on how to mock the request and http://phpdbg.com/docs/simples to know how to run the debugger.
To make a request to the specific URI, I think you need to set `$_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']` and optionally `$_SERVER['QUERY_STRING']` to point to the URL you want to test. URI will be something like '/path/to/file' and the querystring would be everything between the ? and the # in the URLs (ie ?page=2)
Thanks for pointing me to phpdbg, I didn't know that tool and it seems to be a very good one; I'll be testing it in the next days.
Problem
I really like using the php built in server, and I really like the look of phpdbg. It reminds me of pry in Ruby land. But I've been having trouble getting it to work. Is it possible to run user `phpdbg` with the build in web server? E.g., how I would like this to work: - placing `phpdbg_break();` in the code - running `php -S localhost:8000` in the CLI - loading the page/making the request that executes the code containing the `phpdbg_break();` in the browser or through curl - breaking out into a the phpdbg REPL most likely in the same terminal/CLI instance that the built in server was started on When I try this, I get an error that `phpdbg_break();` is an undefined function. Or else (if the above simply isn't possible), how do you use the "webmocking" that the docs talk about (at the bottom)? How to you make a specific request with a specific URI?