Can Xdebug be used with PHP's built-in test server?

So, parting with in this article I was able to use xdebug.

I have installed PHP 5.5 on Mac OS X 10.10 using homebrew

• Install PHP, if not already installed, be sure to install it with the xdebug extension.
  in my case i used $ brew install php55-xdebug
  
  , or if you have pecl
  
  and php is already installed use $ pecl install xdebug
  
  .
  You can check if the extension is installed by running $ php -m | grep xdebug
  
  .

• If you are using VIM as your "IDE" I would recommend installing the vim pathogen plugin and then installing the xdebugger vim plugin ; which I modified to be compatible with the pathogen.

  $ cd ~/.vim/bundle && git clone https://github.com/Triztian/xdebugger.git
  
  

• Next, you need to enable the xdebugger extension; to do this, you first need to figure out which file is being php.ini
  
  loaded, you can check this by running $ php -i | grep "File => /"
  
  . Once you have found the correct init file, you must add the following lines at the end:

  xdebug.remote_enable=On


xdebug.remote_autostart=On
  
  

  If you are using PHP's built-in development server , you can use an argument -c
  
  to specify the php.ini file.

• Now start the php development server (in my case $ php -S localhost:8080 -c /usr/local/etc/php/5.5/php.ini
  
  ) and open VIM. After opening VIM, click <f5>
  
  to make xdebugger start listening for the connection; in your browser go to localhost:8080/index.php
  
  (or any PHP script) so that it starts the xdebugger connection if everything was configured correctly.

• You don't have to be in a debugging session, take a look at the readme plugin to see how it works.