How to trigger XDebug profiler for a command line PHP script?

Question

XDebug offers the configuration directive \"xdebug.profiler_enable_trigger\" that allows to activate profiling by passing the GET or POST parameter \"XDEBUG_PROFILE\" when c

Answer 1

I created a shell script to handle client debugging.

script name: phpdebug

#!/usr/bin/ksh
php -dxdebug.remote_host=`echo $SSH_CLIENT | cut -d "=" -f 2 | awk '{print $1}'` $*

I placed this script in /usr/bin and gave it execute permissions.

The script takes the arguments passed into phpdebug and calls php with the xdebug arguments and appends the arguments passed into the shell script, the $* on the end.