Triggering xdebug from PHPStorm's REST client

January 09, 2014 PHP

If you want to trigger and xdebug session from PHPStorm’s REST client (or anywhere else for that matter), you can set the debug cookie manually. Add a new Request header:

Name: Cookie
Value: XDEBUG_SESSION=PHPSTORM

The value to use for XDEBUG_SESSION can be set in php.ini under xdebug.idekey