Atom + Xdebug setup

Question

I'm trying to setup Xdebug because I'm tired of using echoes and var_dumps. I'm using Atom as my IDE with the php-debug plugin. I'm using the laravel Homestead vm as a server. forwarded port 9000 to 9999 Atom has the plugin installed with the following settings:

I set a breakpoint in Atom, I browse to my page but the breakpoint doesn't trigger. I have a hunch that it has something to do with the IDE key but I don't know how to proceed.

Does anyone know the IDE key for atom? Or is there something else I'm missing?

edit: I've added the following to xdebug.ini:

xdebug.auto_trace = 0
xdebug.collect_includes = 1
xdebug.collect_params = 1
xdebug.collect_return = 0
xdebug.collect_vars = "Off"
xdebug.default_enable = "On"
xdebug.dump.COOKIE = ""
xdebug.dump.FILES = ""
xdebug.dump.GET = ""
xdebug.dump.POST = ""
xdebug.dump.REQUEST = ""
xdebug.dump.SERVER = ""
xdebug.dump.SESSION = ""
xdebug.dump_globals = 1
xdebug.dump_once = 1
xdebug.dump_undefined = 0
xdebug.extended_info = 1
xdebug.file_link_format = ""
xdebug.idekey = "VVVDEBUG"
xdebug.manual_url = "http://www.php.net"
xdebug.max_nesting_level = 100
xdebug.overload_var_dump = 1
xdebug.profiler_append = 0
xdebug.profiler_enable = 0
xdebug.profiler_enable_trigger = 1
xdebug.profiler_output_dir = "/tmp"
xdebug.profiler_output_name = "cachegrind.out.%t-%s"
xdebug.remote_autostart = 1
xdebug.remote_enable = 1
xdebug.remote_handler = "dbgp"
xdebug.remote_host = "192.168.50.1"
xdebug.remote_log = /srv/log/xdebug-remote.log
xdebug.remote_mode = "req"
xdebug.remote_port = 9000
xdebug.show_exception_trace = 0
xdebug.show_local_vars = 0
xdebug.show_mem_delta = 0
xdebug.trace_format = 0
xdebug.trace_options = 0
xdebug.trace_output_dir = "/tmp"
xdebug.trace_output_name = "trace.%c"
xdebug.var_display_max_children = -1
xdebug.var_display_max_data = -1
xdebug.var_display_max_depth = -1

Answer 1

Like @sparkos72 says, the atom ide key xdebug.atom works for me on Ubuntu 16.04 and Debian 7 :-). I try to extend their answer.

I used php-debug atom extension with this config in the xdebug.ini (path: /etc/php5/apache2/conf.d/xdebug.ini).

xdebug.remote_enable=1
xdebug.remote_handler=dbgp
xdebug.remote_mode=req
xdebug.remote_host=172.17.0.1
xdebug.remote_port=9000
xdebug.idekey=xdebug.atom
xdebug.remote_autostart=true

I have a docker container with debian 7 + apache + php 5, that's the reason because I use ip 172.17.0.1 instead of 127.0.0.1. My "real" machine is an Ubuntu.

Hope it helps.