Instalation of xdebug on Linux and Work with Eclipse (Ubuntu 11.04)

The Xdebug extension helps you debugging your script by providing a lot of
valuable debug information.(http://pecl.php.net/package/xdebug)

Installation of xdebug

Open up ur terminal and do below

sudo pecl install xdebug

Output of terminal display like below

Build process completed successfully
Installing '/usr/lib/php5/20090626+lfs/xdebug.so'
install ok: channel://pecl.php.net/xdebug-2.1.2
configuration option "php_ini" is not set to php.ini location
You should add "extension=xdebug.so" to php.ini

editing the php.ini

sudo gedit /etc/php5/apache2/php.ini

append below line to php.ini
You can find xdebug.so from when you install pecl. (Output message in terminal)

zend_extension=/usr/lib/php5/20090626+lfs/xdebug.so
xdebug.remote_enable=1


eclipse configuration

Debug Configuration (Run>Debug Configuration)

Set Server Debugger to XDebug (not Zend Debugger)

Start Debugging