I am trying to get PHP debugging to work in VS code on a Debian system. I have followed several different posts and videos and help files and just can't get it to work. There is conflicting information probably due to different versions of the software?
Here is what I have:
VS Code 1.65.0
XAMPP for Linux 8.0.15 (Apache is running)
Installed VS Code extensions
PHP Debug
PHP Intellisense
Installed
xdebug through apt-install (shows version 3.02+2.9.8....)
But if I run phpinfo() I do not see an entry for xdebug
Running the xdebug wizard it says that xdebug is not installed so I followed the steps outlined
download/extract xdebug-3.1.3
run phpize
run ./configure
run cp modules/xdebug.so /opt/lampp/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20200930
^^This gives me an error cp: cannot stat 'modules/xdebug.so' : no such file or directory
The instructions also state to add
zend_extension = xdebug
In the VS Code, it stated to make the follwing changes:
added below to /opt/lampp/etc/php.ini (php.ini as shown by phpinfo())
(in the Dynamic Extensions section)
zend_extension =xdebug.so (I tried keeping the above one and keeping just this one)
(at the end of the file-not sure where it was supposed to go? But looks like it is in the [opcache] section?
xdebug.mode= debug
xdebug.start_with_request = yes
And I tried several other things and still no luck. What info do you need and what do I need to do to get the debugging working?
Thanks
download/extract xdebug-3.1.3
run phpize
run ./configure
run cp modules/xdebug.so /opt/lampp/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20200930
The wizard instructions tell you to run make between run ./configure and run cp modules/xdebug.so /opt/lampp/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20200930
The make step is what compiles the extension.
I run a PHP script and get this error:
PHP Warning: PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library '/usr/local/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20090626/ixed.5.2.lin' - /usr/local/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20090626/ixed.5.2.lin: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory in Unknown on line 0
What does that mean?
It means there is an extension=... or zend_extension=... line in one of your php configuration files (php.ini, or another close to it) that is trying to load that extension : ixed.5.2.lin
Unfortunately that file or path doesn't exist or the permissions are incorrect.
Try to search in the .ini files that are loaded by PHP (phpinfo() can indicate which ones are) - one of them should try to load that extension.
Either correct the path to the file or comment out the corresponding line.
If you're on Linux, you can find all loaded configuration files by typing this in shell:
php -r "print phpinfo();" | grep ".ini"
UPDATE:
As mentioned in comments, this can be even more accurate:
php -i | grep ini
phpStom with XAMPP
TL;DR Except from verifying that the files exist, you might need to add the drive letter to some records in your php.ini file
I suddenly started having a problem using phpStorm 7 for debugging php with xampp and xdebug. When trying to set intellij interperter to be xampps php I got a lot of the warnings like the one in the question, for example:
Unable to load dynamic library '/xampp/php/ext/php_bz2.dll'
For some reason I had to add my drive letter to the records of extension_dir and browscap in the php.ini file:
extension_dir = "\xampp\php\ext"
browscap = "\xampp\php\extras\browscap.ini"
to
extension_dir = "e:\xampp\php\ext"
browscap = "e:\xampp\php\extras\browscap.ini"
If you just want to make the error disappear, and you don't need the extension, then by all means comment the line out in php.ini. But if you actually want to fix the problem here is some additional info.
There are various causes for this based on the exact module, but there are also some general guidelines.
Open phpinfo() and look for extension_dir under the Core section. This is where your modules should be located.
For instance, /usr/lib/php/modules for Unix/Linux.
If the file does in fact exist, make sure permissions are adequate.
If the file does not exist, use the resources below to install it.
Installation on *nix (PEAR)
Installation of extensions on Windows
Loading .dll in Linux
I've encountered this warning message while I was trying to install a php-extension via the php.ini file;
until I figured out that you cannot load .dll extensions in Linux,
but you have to comment the extensions that you want to import ;extension= ... .dll and install it correctly via sudo apt-get install php-...
note: ... is the extension name you want to enable.
php -r "echo php_ini_loaded_file();"
Will show in CLI current ini loaded file, search there for Your extension, path to it is incorrect.
In my case, this message started to appear when I updated the php version to 7.4.
To solve it I had to look for the php.ini files found inside the php version folder (/etc/php/7.4/apache2/ && /etc/php/7.4/cli/) checking the lines where the extensions I could see that the extensions gd2 and intl were uncommented.
Note that you can also get this error if your PHP library doesn't have the "other" directory opening permission. In my particular case, I noticed this when using php -l to syntax check a script in my text editor. This meant that since my account was called "volomike", that account didn't have permission to run the libraries that the php command relied upon.
For instance, on Ubuntu 14.04, I had PHP5 installed automatically into the path /usr/lib/php5/20121212+lfs. However, because I was working in C++ in building some shared objects, I messed around with the directory permissions and screwed things up such that non-root accounts did not have the directory execute (directory open) permissions to view /usr/lib/php5/20121212+lfs. So, I typed the following command to rectify that problem:
sudo chmod o+x /usr/lib/php5/20121212+lfs.
Now when I do php -l example.php as a non-root user, it never gives me this "Unabled to load dynamic library" problem anymore.
I had the same problem on XAMPP for Windows when I try to install composer.
I did php -v and php throwing error :
Unable to load dynamic library '/xampp/php/ext/php_bz2.dll'
It took me a while until I realized that I need to setup my XAMPP. So I run setup_xampp.bat and php return to works like a charm.
I had this error on a number of modules when I had been running different versions of PHP side by side on my server. To sort this out, I needed to install the packages it couldn't find for that specific PHP version. So, for example, if I saw:-
PHP Warning: PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library '/usr/lib/php/20160303/xml.so'
I would install the library for the PHP version specifically:-
sudo apt-get install php7.1-xml
And then restart Apache. Fixed it for me. You can check your version like this:-
php -v
I had the same problem on XAMPP for Windows10 when I try to install composer.
Unable to load dynamic library '/xampp/php/ext/php_bz2.dll'
Then follow this steps
just open your current_xampp_containing_drive:\xampp(default_xampp_folder)\php\php.ini in texteditor (like notepad++)
now just find - is the current_xampp_containing_drive:\xampp exist?
if not then find the "extension_dir" and get the drive name(c,d or your desired drive) like.
extension_dir="F:\xampp731\php\ext" (here finded_drive_name_from_the_file is F)
again replace with finded_drive_name_from_the_file:\xampp with current_xampp_containing_drive:\xampp and save.
now again start the composer installation progress, i think your problem will be solved.
What I did was;
1 - I first find out what version of PHP I am using thru the function phpinfo()
<?php
phpinfo();
?>
2 - From there you will find the location of your configuration(php.ini) file
3 - Open that file
4 - Comment out the line similar to the image below
This might be a different value but it should be related to extension.
I am no expert but this process helped me solved similar problem.
In my case I got this error because I downloaded a thread-safe version of the dll (infixed with -ts-), but my installation of php was a non-thread-safe (infixed with -nts-). Downloading the right version of the dll, exactly matching my php installation version fixed the issue.
After Windows 10 XAMPP now I installed LAMPP (XAMPP) on Ubuntu. Windows XAMPP had a lot less to configure compare to MAC (iOS) but now with Linux Ubuntu I had a few more since there are more going in Linux (a good thing).
I confused and activated mysqli.dll (and mysql.dll: erase "#" in /etc/php/7.2/cli/php.ini
I started to get the PHP Warning: PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library message related to dll. I commented out mysql(and i).dll in the same file but the message didn't go away up until I commented out " " in /opt/lampp/etc/php.ini.
Looks like XAMPP reads php.ini file from /etc/php/7.2/cli and makes modification in php.ini of /opt/lampp/etc. (;extension=php_pdo_mysql.dll after ";" restarted Apache and no more any message.
I encountered a similar error. The mistake I made was to use the "controller" name as "Pages" instead of "pages" in my url.
In Windows, it could be a wrong path in "System environment variables".
"Path" to the php.exe directory must be the good one.
'C:/PHP/5.2.13/ext\php_mcrypt1.dll'
I'd say there's some typo on your php.ini (the extra 1). Perhaps you're loading a different php.ini from what you expect (see the output of php.ini to make sure).
Other than that make sure that php_mcrypt.dll and PHP:
Were linked to the same VC runtime library (typically msvcrt.dll for VC6 or msvcrt90.dll for VC9) – use e.g. the dependency walker for this
Are both debug builds or both release builds
Both have ZTS enabled or ZTS disabled
For libraries that depend on further libraries (DLLs), make sure they are available (e.g. in the same directory as the extension)
PHP should give you meaning errors if any of the first three conditions above is not satisfied, but I wrote those anyway because I'm not sure for PHP 5.2.
From C:\xampp\php\php.exe I got
Unable to load dynamic library ''
C:\xampp\php\ext\php_.dll (The specified module could not be found.)
I solved by commenting out
C:\xampp\php\php.ini
;extension=
I had the same problem when I tried to use php with sql server, when I added the sqlsrv libraries ... it gave me the error, after several days of researching there, I understood that microsoft does not support x64 in this case so what I did was install laragon x86 and use the corresponding libraries. I hope it helps with something
Go to system env variable and set the php ext dir path as
C:\xampp\php\ext
basically it's finding the ext directory and then locating it's file but it's unable to find the files becuase php path is set as different.
After I tried for hours to find the good path for PHP-CLI, i finally found it. But my proud was soon gone again.
Still i got the following error:
The following requirements were not met. As a result video uploads have been disabled.
Unable to locate path to PHP-CLI
I have tried much different paths
bin/php
usr/local/lib
usr/local/lib/php
usr/local/bin/php (this is the good one I thought).
Still getting the same error as above. Whats happening? My server is not running in Safe Mode and my exec() are enabled via the php.ini file.
Please help me..
Edit:
Paul
Q: Have you tried any "fully qualified paths", e.g. "/bin/php" (not
just "bin/php")?
A: I have tried both solutions, no result.
Q: Are you sure php-cli is installed on your system (it's typically a
seperate package from the Apache PHP plug-in)? EXAMPLE: apt-get
install php5-common libapache2-mod-php5 php5-cli.
A: I tried this in the SSH of my server, its a CentOS server so he didn't found the comment
#Peter:
If you installed PHP through your OS package manager, the path would
probably be /usr/bin/php, which appears to be the only one you didn't
try
I tried that one now, i didn't help, still the same error:
Edit2
#Dev-null
You have found and what? Just knowing where >is located will not fix it, have you changed some >code or environment variable PATH to make it
A: its an input field where i need to put the path in. I haven't changed any code, because PHP version 5.3.17 (CLI) installed on my CentOS server. So no need to change some code just for the path, right?
Edit
My PHP info, PHP 5.3.17 (CLI) Check the image below..
Edit
When I do rpm -q php-cli I get PHP-CLI not installed and when I want to install i get No package php-cli available. See image below.
Edit
Result of /bin/php -v below.
CentOS ships the PHP command-line interpreter in the php-cli package. So you first need to verify whether it's installed or not:
rpm -q php-cli
If installed, you can list all its files:
rpm -ql php-cli
... and filter out potential binaries:
rpm -ql php-cli | grep /bin/
You can get further details in the Using RPM chapter of the deployment guide.
If the package is not installed:
yum install php-cli
More info at Installing New Software with yum.
All this answer assumes that nobody broke the package system by installing software manually. If that happened, there's no way to tell what changes were made to the system.
Edit #1: I've just seen your last edit where php-cli is up and running. Then, if you want to know the path you just need to type this:
which php
Edit #2: You seem to have up to 4 binaries called php in your path. I still think that the proper reliable way to find the php-cli binary is running rpm -ql php-cli but given that php finds it on the path I'm pretty sure that it's located at /bin/php and you can verify it by running:
/bin/php -v
Run that exact command—don't remove any slashes or append -cli.
If your script, whatever it looks like, cannot find it, it's either doing it wrong or it's missing the appropriate permissions.
try the following to find it:
sudo find / -name php-cli
You most likely want php instead of php-cli though.
None of the solutions on this page found the installed versions of PHP that were present in my own elusive search for php-cli. The solution for me was to use the following command:
locate bin/php
This listed all php versions and I could then replace php with, for example:
/usr/bin/php71-cli
To access the command line interface version of php rather than the default cgi one. I then alias my instructions like so:
alias composer='/usr/bin/php71-cli bin/composer.phar'
I installed "drush" for my drupal website.
when I tried to run "drush":
[root#server /]# drush
/usr/share/drush/drush.launcher: line 132: /usr/bin/php-cli: No such file or directory
[root#server /]#
php-cli was not in my default directory /usr/bin
Solution was to copy my "php"-file to "php-cli" file (no rename!!, just copy)
[root#server /]# cp php php-cli
weird, but still working!
I'm running XAMPP 1.7.3a on Ubuntu 9.10. With Netbeans 6.7.1 as my editor, I want to be able to debug my PHP sites.
To do this, I looked up Xdebug and started following the installation instructions, found here: http://xdebug.org/docs/install.
Trying to compile the .tgz file, run in to a problem.
Step 3) I can execute that, but what use does it have? I don't get the output or what I should do with it.
Step 4) I execute the following command:
./configure --enable-xdebug --with-php-config=/opt/lampp/etc/
At the bottom of the output, it says: configure:
error: Cannot find php-config. Please
use --with-php-config=PATH
I've checked the location I entered, the php.ini file is there and so are all other config files.
So, I'm not sure what to do now. Should I ignore and just do the 'make' command, or does something else yet need to be done?
you have to pass the path to the php config binary - should be something like
/opt/lampp/bin/php-config
All the binaries in XAMPP are located in
/opt/lampp/bin
That's why if you work with XAMPP's PHP version you ought to proceed all operations using binaries from there.
For example, after installation of XAMPP it's possible to set path to it's PHP bin file.
Okies, I have successfully installed the XAMPP and added virtual hosts and am able to make database calls and stuff. The problem I am facing is while trying to enable the memcache module.
Currently trying to configure using these links.
http://theindexer.wordpress.com/2008/06/02/installing-a-lamp-stack-on-linux-using-xampp-for-linux/
http://theindexer.wordpress.com/2008/06/11/installing-xdebug-on-xampp-for-linux/
http://lynxbites.blogspot.com/2009/09/steps-to-install-memcache.html
The problem I am facing is while starting the phpize from /opt/lampp/bin/phpize
I am getting the following error.
Cannot find config.m4.
Make sure that you run '/opt/lampp/bin/phpize' in the top level source directory of the module
Can any one tell me wat to do for this error and if anyone has any useful links for configuring memcache on linux using XAMPP please paste here.
Thanks.
First unzip the xdebug.
In the step of phpize make sure that you can see the file named (config.m4) by issueing the (ls) command, i.e. enter inside the zipped file twice as in
~/Downloads/xdebug-2.2.3/xdebug-2.2.3# sudo phpize
Looks like you are missing some packages to install. I solved the phpize problem when tryinng to install xdebug following the following guidelines
http://www.spiration.co.uk/post/1385/Cannot-find-autoconf.-Please-check-your-autoconf-installation
Try running as root: sudo phpize...