I had a hard time finding basic instructions, and in fact, I found that many of the more complex instructions were unnecessary. This is with Netbeans 8.1. The XDebug package in the repositories is current and will work. You just need to set your php.ini file correctly. I found answer #1 at this link quite adequate…
It’s one of my favorites for web site work as well as use as a programmer’s platform, and it’s available for download.
You can read about it here or just go and download it here. Netbeans has become my editor of choice for working with PHP. At first I found it a bit clumsy due to the many things I was not used to having. But over time I have found it very helpful in preventing those…
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