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Visual Studio Code Integration
Mark Metcalfe 👽 edited this page Sep 22, 2025
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Install the PHPUnit extension
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Add the following to your
settings.json
:MacOS:
"phpunit.command": "tphp debug", "phpunit.phpunit": "phpunit",
WSL: Must specify the full path to
tphp
- replace/home/me/totara-docker-dev
with the actual path to your docker-dev repo"phpunit.command": "/home/me/totara-docker-dev/bin/tphp debug", "phpunit.phpunit": "phpunit",
You should now be able to run PHPUnit tests by clicking on "Run test" above test methods or classes in any test file.
Note: For now, this only works with MacOS. If you find a way to get this working on WSL, please update these steps!
- Install the PHP Debug extension
- Open 'launch.json' from the Run and Debug sidebar panel
- Add the following to
configurations
:So your{ "name": "Listen for Xdebug", "type": "php", "request": "launch", "port": 9003, "pathMappings": { "/var/www/totara/src": "${workspaceFolder}/.." } }
launch.json
looks like this:
Now whenever you want to debug a PHP script, simply add breakpoints wherever you wish, and then ensure you start listening for the debugger within the Run and Debug sidebar.

- Install a database viewer extension such as DBCode
- Add a new connection for the database you wish
- Set the Port, User and Password values to be the same as what is listed in this table
You should now be able to view the tables for the DBMS you added.
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