Is it possible to use xdebug on Ubuntu?

Question

I am trying to debug some PHP code and wanted to download the XDebug debugger for PHP. All I see there is Windows binaries for downloading. Is it at all possible to use it

Answer 1

Proper way to install XDEBUG for newest version of LAMPP:

1. Download: XDEBUG latest version called source.

2. Extract file to any folder.

3. Open this folder with terminal.

4. Change X.X.X to Your actually version of php

5. Execute the following commands in your terminal.

   /opt/lampp/bin/phpize-X.X.X
   ./configure --with-php-config=/opt/lampp/bin/php-config-X.X.X
   make
   cp modules/xdebug.so /opt/lampp/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20170718
   

Now we need edit file php.ini

5. Open folder where is file php.ini in terminal:

   sudo nano ./php.ini
   

6. Add to the end of file this:

   zend_extension = /opt/lampp/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20170718/xdebug.so
   

7. Open LAMPP folder in terminal

8. Now restart Apache.

   sudo ./xampp restart
   

And now You can check phpinfo() to see XDEBUG is installed.