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How to generate and view code coverage reports in PhpStorm using PHPUnit and Xdebug

In this video, you'll learn how to generate code coverage reports, and how to display them directly in PhpStorm.

This video is part of our Laravel Package Training video course. In that course, you'll learn how to create both framework agnostic and Laravel specific packages. We'll also source dive some popular Spatie packages together, so you can pick up some tricks we apply there.

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Find Segfaults in PHP like a boss

– jolicode.com

Grégoire Pineau explains how you can find the source of a segfault in PHP.

Sometimes, a segfault happens, but you don’t know where, and your PHP installation does not have tools to find it. Or sometime, you think PHP is hanging, but you don’t know where. You may use xdebug, but you don’t want to click so many times on the « next call » button.

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How to upgrade from PHP 7.1 to 7.2 on MacOS using Homebrew original

by Freek Van der Herten – 1 minute read

PHP 7.2 was released almost two months ago. I decided to wait a bit until a stable version of Xdebug with PHP 7.2 compatiblity was available. And that happened yesterday with the release of Xdebug 2.6. I'm on MacOS and use brew to install stuff. Upgrading from PHP 7.1 to 7.2 is laughably easy. These…

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Setting up Xdebug with Laravel Valet original

by Freek Van der Herten – 4 minute read

On most of my day to day work I use Laravel Valet to develop locally. When hitting a bug often I just put a dd() statement in the code to quickly inspect what's going on. But when encountering a complex bug this becomes tedious. Wouldn't it be nice if we could add a breakpoint to our code and be…

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