PHP XDebug not formatting var_dump
June 11, 2010XDebug is a great tool for PHP developers which, amnogst other things, is supposed to make var_dumps() easier to read. On a new install of Ubuntu 10.4 though I couldn’t get it to work. I finally tracked the problem down to not having html_errors=On in /etc/php5/apache2/php.ini. Set it to on, restart apache and it works fine!
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Thanks, saved my day.
THANK YOU! This was driving me batty. 🙂
Thanks, this was really useful!
Thanks! This has been annoying me for a while.
thanks!
Thanks! Worked on PHP 5.2 on Windows
THANK YOU!!!!
Thanks for sharing. This information is hardly anywhere to be found!
Thank you, I was having a headache from looking at those damn curvy brackets…
Yep, thanks! I was trying out all xdebug.* ini variables without luck 🙂
Nice catch! Thanks 🙂
This was also driving me nuts. Not sure how you narrowed it down, but thanks!
Makes perfect sense, thanks for the insight
thanks a lot buddy! saved me a few hours! 😉
Great, that was exactly the problem on my Debian system as well. Thanks for sharing this info!
A PHP patch about this has been accepted yesterday: https://wiki.php.net/rfc/error-formatting-for-developers
Regards.
Hey man, this is super helpful. Thanks!
Thank you!! so much =)
Thanks, very helpful and time saving
Another thanks !! Saved my day
Thanks for the share … I was blaming xdebug installation
Great tip, thank you!
Great! Thanks for suggestion 😉
Thanks. You’ve saved my day.
Thank you!!!
Thank you so much, this got turned off somehow after an update on Debian. Saved my day ! 🙂
Woot, just what I needed, thanks!