I am assuming that you already followed the tutorials on setting up xDebug on PHP installation and PhpStorm. Let me know if you need some help with that. I am using xDebug Helper extension on Chrome. Install it too. With the extension installed: In PhpStorm, go to Run > Start Listening for PHP Debug Connections. … Read more
On WP side the only handling it does is setting log to WP_CONTENT_DIR . ‘/debug.log’ if WP_DEBUG_LOG is enabled (highly bad idea in production environment as public location). If I remember right the very early implementations of this constant allowed to customize the path, but that’s no longer the case. In my experience ini_set( ‘log_errors’, … Read more
There’s a native PHP function get_included_files() for that. Simply attach it to an action on the hook from where you want to know it. The first one is muplugins_loaded and the last accessible on is shutdown. add_action( ‘muplugins_loaded’, function() { $files = get_included_files(); foreach ( $files as $f ) echo $f.'<br>’; // or… var_dump( $files … Read more
After disabling all plugins I was able to narrow down which one was affecting the log output. The client had installed Speed of Light plugin to provide caching and compression which was also effecting wp_debug capabilities.
What is the time zone setup in your admin -> settings -> general page? WordPress overrides & kind of disregards php’s timezone & uses this own settings , if haven’t set this – default is UTC+0 Update: according to https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/39595 – wordpress has forced this to be UTC
I’ve frequently seen this used in Apache 2.2: <Files “debug.log”> Order allow,deny Deny from all </Files> but that’s deprecated in Apache 2.4: The Allow, Deny, and Order directives, provided by mod_access_compat, are deprecated and will go away in a future version. You should avoid using them, and avoid outdated tutorials recommending their use. I just … Read more
Resources on how to use the WordPress unit-test: WordPress Automated Tests Trac Automated Testing in The Codex The Unit-Test README File (broken) The PHPUnit Manual Hakre/WP Unit-Tests Codex Page Block Unit Test for Gutemberg Unit Tests for WordPress Plugins
The best way to troubleshoot/debug your PHP code for WordPress is to use the XDEBUG debugger for PHP coupled with an IDE/editor that can leverage XDEBUG. By far my favorite IDE for PHP/XDEBUG is PhpStorm (best money I have ever spent), but you can use for free on the bleeding edge with their EAP (Early … Read more
Just an Idea – I did not test this. Worth a try would be to play around with your PHP settings: ; Implicit flush tells PHP to tell the output layer to flush itself ; automatically after every output block. This is equivalent to calling the PHP ; function flush() after each and every call … Read more
I found the problem. In the Apache server, inside the php.ini, the variable… track_errors = Off To get this information, you can do in a phpfile phpinfo();. So, to write the debug log file, you need to set track_errors as ‘On’.