View source for Configuring Xdebug for PHP development/Mac

=== Configuration Instructions ===
*Open finder and navigate to
 <syntaxhighlight lang="text"> /Applications/MAMP/conf/<selected php version>/ </syntaxhighlight>
(NOTE: <selected php version> is the PHP version that you have selected in the MAMP configuration)
*Open the file ''php.ini'' with a text editor such as TextWrangler
*Find the section [xdebug]
*Uncomment the line
<syntaxhighlight lang="text"> 
 [xdebug]
 ;zend_extension="/Applications/MAMP/bin/php/<selected php version>/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20121212/xdebug.so"
</syntaxhighlight>
by removing the semicolon character at the beginning of the line.
*Add after the line the following text, if not already existing
<syntaxhighlight lang="text"> 
 xdebug.remote_enable=on
 xdebug.remote_handler=dbgp
 xdebug.remote_host=localhost
 xdebug.remote_port=9000
</syntaxhighlight>
*Save changes and close the editor
*Restart your MAMP Server
Note: You can set a different port number if you need.