Xdebug trace function how to exclude vendor dir

Question

I am using Xdebug to analyze my Laravel code. I use the trace and coverage function.

For coverage, I can config whitelist and exclude to configure what directory and file I want to analyze.

But for trace, I don't know how to configure the exclude directory. Like vendor, I think they are no change, so I want to exclude them. I just want to focus on my code.

Do you know how I can configure trace exclude or blacklist?

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<phpunit backupGlobals="true" colors="true" convertErrorsToExceptions="true"
    convertNoticesToExceptions="true" convertWarningsToExceptions="true" stopOnFailure="false">
    <filter>
        <whitelist processUncoveredFilesFromWhitelist="false" addUncoveredFilesFromWhitelist="false">
            <directory suffix=".php">./../</directory>
            <exclude>
                <directory suffix=".php">./../vendor</directory>
            </exclude>
        </whitelist>
        <blacklist>
        </blacklist>
    </filter>
</phpunit>

Answer 1

For removing things from traces, you can use Xdebug's xdebug_set_filter() function. There is an example in the manual, which reads as follows:

To exclude all files in the vendor sub-directory in traces:

Example:

<?php
xdebug_set_filter(
    XDEBUG_FILTER_TRACING, XDEBUG_PATH_BLACKLIST, 
    [ __DIR__ . "/vendor/" ]
);
?>

You need Xdebug 2.6 or later for this to work. You can either put this in your index.php script, or otherwise in an auto_prepend script. The only important note is that this line needs to be run before the include/calls within the /vendor/ folder are executed.

FWIW, In Xdebug 3, XDEBUG_PATH_BLACKLIST will be renamed to XDEBUG_PATH_EXCLUDE.