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

In PhpStorm 7 using WAMP I got this to work by copying my already working xdebug settings from C:\wamp\bin\apache\apache2.2.22\bin\php.ini to the xdebug section of C:\wamp\bin\php\phpX.Y.Z\php.ini. Then I ran my script like so:

php -d xdebug.idekey=PHPSTORM script.php

This even worked for debugging laravel artisan scripts

php -d xdebug.idekey=PHPSTORM artisan db:seed --force