Usually, when debugging Drupal code with PHPstorm, you set a header cookie and this sends control to Xdebug and PHPstorm. However, when debugging Drush commands, the PHP CLI interpreter is used, so a different system is needed.
This tip comes from Lullabot's article on debugging Drush commands with Xdebug and PHPStorm. There are two ways to trigger PHPstorm:
First, to allow PHPstorm to debug every time the CLI is invoked, set the idekey variable in the
php.ini file, by adding the line:
xdebug.idekey="PHPSTORM";
The second and more temporal method is to set the environment variable XDEBUG_CONFIG in bash using this command:
export XDEBUG_CONFIG="idekey=PHPSTORM"
12 / 2019
