The xdebug extension is not loaded

Question

I\'ve got xdebug installed fine (showing up in phpinfo()) but I\'m trying to get it to work with PHPUnit\'s code coverage functionality. It keeps telling me \"The XDebug extensi

Answer 1

You need to create two symlinks:

1. c:\php is a symlink to your current php folder
2. c:\windows\php.ini is a symlink to your current php.ini file

To create a symlink in windows use mklink command

e.g.

• mklink /D c:\php c:\path\to\your\php folder makes a symlink to directory
• mklink c:\windows\php.ini c:\path\to\your\php\php.ini makes a symlink to file

It seems in windows somehow phpunit doesnt see actual paths and with that symlinks you create virtual default paths for it