PHP CLI increase memory limit

Sometimes, when you are running a PHP script from command line interface(CLI), a higher memory limit may be required in order for the script to be successfully executed. This can be done by using the "-d" or "–define" option in the command.  php -d memory_limit=2048m bin/phpunit In my case, I want to run a project's tests that have high memory consumption. Here is the link to the php manual's command line features and also directly for the command line options...

XDebug - Step into debugging from different executions

I think this article is more a note for myself then a real serious blogpost. For configuring php storm here a a link with a good desciption: https://www.jetbrains.com/help/phpstorm/2016.1/configuring-xdebug.html?origin=old_help Here is my current xdebug config taken from xdebug.ini [xdebug] zend_extension="/usr/local/opt/php56-xdebug/xdebug.so" xdebug.profiler_output_dir=/tmp xdebug.profiler_enable_trigger=1 xdebug.remote_enable=1 xdebug.remote_autostart=0 xdebug.remote_connect_back=0 xdebug.remote_host="localhost" xdebug.idekey=XDEBUG xdebug.remote_port=9000 xdebug.remote_handler="dbgp" Running...