How to debug composer post update commands

Question

I have a composer packege which i want to modify, it is part of Laravel framework, but i want to modify it big time. For that i need the xdebug to be able to run via the composer.

To be precise it runs on composer post update hook and there is a error in it.. i can not get it to work, but cant debug it. Anyone has any idea how i can do it?

I tried to do it via command line to test it, but i don`t get any meaningful answers. And i dont know how to run composer command in browser where i have a xdebug command active.

Answer 1

You can very easily get Xdebug remote debugging on the command line as well. No need for a browser. You simply do:

export XDEBUG_CONFIG="idekey=sangoku"

and then run the composer script. As long as you have xdebug.remote_enable set to 1 in php.ini, this will initiate a debugging request to an open IDE. Depending on your IDE, you might need to do something special though to allow this connection to come in.