Month: October 2011

Here’s some steps which may help somebody else install PHP on their Windows machine to run alongside JetBrain’s PhpStorm for PHPUnit testing

• Download Windows PHP from http://windows.php.net/download/ . I selected PHP 5.3.8 ‘s VC9 x86 Thread Safe (2011-Aug-23 12:01:10) Installer.
• Install, with no web server configurations, to C:\Program Files (x86)\PHP
• Download the appropriate APC module from http://downloads.php.net/pierre/ to match your PHP version. I picked: http://downloads.php.net/pierre/php_apc-3.1.5-5.3-vc9-x86.zip
• Copy the enclosed php_apc.dll from that .zip file to C:\program files\x86\PHP\ext
• Download the appropriate XDebug module from http://xdebug.org/download.php to match your PHP version. I picked: http://xdebug.org/files/php_xdebug-2.1.2-5.3-vc9.dll
• Save the file to c:\program files\x96\PHP\ext (I had to save it as c:\users\richyc and then, from my administrator command prompt (see below) do “cp c:\users\richyc\php_xdebug-2.1.2-5.3-vc9.dll.dll “c:\program files (x86)\php\ext”)
• Start a command prompt, cmd.exe, with administration rights (Windows->Search->cmd.exe right click and then “Run as administrator”)
• In the command prompt, enter the following:
  cd “c:\program files (x86)\php\pear”
  php go-pear.phar
  Are you install a system-wide PEAR or a local copy? system
  Accept all defaults
  pear upgrade pear
  pear config-set auto_discover 1
  pecl channel-update pecl.php.net
  pecl config-set php_suffix .exe
  pecl install channel://pecl.php.net/dbus-0.1.1
  pear install channel://pear.php.net/HTTP_REQUEST2-2.0.0RC2 channel://pear.php.net/Net_URL2-0.3.1 pear/XML_RPC2
  pear install pear.phpunit.de/PHPUnit phpunit/DbUnit phpunit/PHPUnit_Selenium phpunit/PHPUnit_Story phpunit/PHP_Invoker
  echo extension = php_apc.dll >> ../php.ini
  echo zend_extension = “C:\program files (x86)\php\ext\php_xdebug-2.1.2-5.3-vc9.dll” >> ../php.ini
  echo xdebug.remote_enable=1 >> ../php.ini
  echo xdebug.remote_host=localhost >> ../php.ini
  echo xdebug.remote_port=9000 >> ../php.ini
  echo date.timezone = “Etc/UTC” >> ../php.ini
• To test from the command prompt, just try php -m. You should see apc and xdebug (twice) listed.

Now PHP is configured, we need to configure JetBrain’s PHPStorm to use it:

• Load PHPStorm
• Open or create your project
• Go to File->Settings->PHP
• In the PHP home section, enter: C:\Program Files (x86)\PHP and select “Xdebug” as your debugger
• Select “Update include paths”
• Select PHP->Debug->Xdebug proxy
• Enter Host: localhost and port: 9000. Leave “IDE Key” empty