The only things I managed to get working reliably with xdebug were • break at the first line in a script (very annoying when you have to debug something very d

The only things I managed to get working reliably with xdebug were • break at the first line in a script (very annoying when you have to debug something very deep) • generate tracing logs (horrible to read but the best debugger replacement I had at the time) • generate profiling logs (very helpful) I never managed to get arbitrary breakpoints to work so I basically resorted to either traces or var_dump.