Setting up XDebug with SublimeText 2 on Mac OS X

I've been trying to set up debugging on and off with SublimeText over the years, and I never quite got it right. Today I was determined to make it work and finally I managed.
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I’ve been trying to set up debugging on and off with SublimeText over the years, and I never quite got it right.

Today I was determined to make it work and finally I managed.

Here are the links I used to set it up, they are mostly the same, so the first one should be enough:

After setting XDebug with SublimeText I ran some tests with a simple PHP file before trying it out with WordPress itself, setting a breakpoint in the index.php file in the root WordPress folder. This allowed me to go through the loading process of WordPress, which is a very interesting journey I recommend you take if you haven’t done it yet.

While I was at it, I also wanted to set up file handlers so that when I got PHP warnings or errors that included a stack trace, I could click on the files shown and they would open directly in SublimeText.Β For that I found this guide handy:Β http://simonwheatley.co.uk/2012/07/clickable-stack-traces/

To make the sublΒ handler work I tried to use this, however I haven’t managed to make it work yet.
https://github.com/asuth/subl-handler

For activating the debug session in the browser, I used the XDebug Chrome Helper.

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Jean Galea is an investor, entrepreneur, and blogger. He is the founder of WP Mayor, the plugins WP RSS Aggregator and Spotlight, as well as the Mastermind.fm podcast. His personal blog can be found at jeangalea.com.

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