enable xdebug in php 8 macos monterey 2022

Alright devs lets enable xdebug in php 8 on macos. So first of all we need to open terminal and run below given commands. So here is how our system looks like now

There is no information about Xdebug here.

Run this command

// Intel based cpu 

pecl install xdebug

// M1 based cpu

arch -x86_64 sudo pecl install xdebug

It will install xdebug

Great now check the php info again. using

php --version

Now we have xdebug there yeah awesome.

Incase you need to set config in ini file

here is what you need to add

zend_extension = /usr/local/lib/php/pecl/20210902/xdebug.so 
xdebug.mode = debug
xdebug.start_with_request = yes
xdebug.client_port = 9000

Zend_extension path might differ check using

cd /usr/local/lib/php/pecl

Here you will see a folder and inside it xdebug.so

just update accordingly as in our case folder name was "20210902".

so we added

/usr/local/lib/php/pecl/20210902/xdebug.so