Trace and debug PHP code

Question

Can somebody tell me how can php code be traced on a distant webserver? I tried with xdebug but I cannot find php.ini and other configuration files?

Thank you very much in advance!

• h2ooooooo: If anything else fails there's always var_dump and print_r to use in your logic and follow what's going on. You've been very vague about what you're trying to do, though.
• Bojangles: There are only like, 3 places it could be. I don't think you looked very hard (Googling for tutorials on PHP with your chosen distribution would help)

Answer 1

Have you enabled the remote debug functionality in XDebug?

http://xdebug.org/docs/remote

You need an IDE that integrates with xdebug remote debug, like Netbeans 7.

https://netbeans.org/kb/docs/php/debugging.html

• Moki: I am now installing Netbeans, but I did not enable remote debug because I cannot find php.ini.
• Latheesan: create a file on your web server called phpinfo.php in the document root with the code <?php phpinfo(); ?> and then visit the url your-site.com/phpinfo.php and it will tell you where the php.ini file is on your server.