The Dutch Web Alliance has posted the fourth part of their series looking at remote debugging with PHPStorm. If you want to start from the beginning, you can find the first part of the series here (along with a table of contents for the other parts).

Unit testing should play a pretty big part in your daily PHP work. With the help of PHPUnit, writing and executing those tests is fairly simple. But in a remote environment we run into some issues which we try to solve in this blogpost. I’m not going to tell you the basics of unit-testing, as we assume you already are familiar with this. If not, There are lots of blog posts on this subject.

With some tests already in place, they show you how to get PHPStorm all set up and working. First they talk some about how the IDE makes its connection to the remote server via a "proxy" script. There's a few problems with this method, so they show a different approach using the "PHP on Server" configuration setting. They walk you through the setup of this feature (with screenshots) and how to "trick" it using a dummy phpunit.xml file.