CakePHP command line doesn't work when xdebug loaded

Question

I\'m trying to use xdebug against PHP 7.1.6 to troubleshoot a failing unit test in my CakePHP v3.3.6 project. I\'ve set up xdebug using the following settings:

Answer 1

I had this error too. I found that it somehow was related to VS Code, since I had no problems debugging in Sublime.

After a bit of trial and error I found that adding:

"ignore": [
    "**/vendor/**/*.php"
]

to my launch.json fixed the problem. I'm not quite sure about this magic behind, but now I am able to move on.

https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=felixfbecker.php-debug