It provides a way to debug your code in IDE or editor while script is executing.It allows us to trace every function call with arguments and invocation location to disk.It allows us in analyzing the performance of our PHP applications using Visualization tools.It also provides lot of PHP inbuilt functions which helps gather more information about the application being developed.
Xdebug is a free and open source extension of PHP that provides developers a wide range of features like better error messages, advance debugging support, code coverage, profiling and so on. In this article, I will take you through the steps to install PHP Xdebug on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (Focal Fossa).
