I am using NetBeans 8.1 with XDEBUG to debug PHP code on my local WAMP server and it works fine. In addition I use on the client side JavaScript/Jquery code that has AJAX request to the PHP file and transfers to the PHP file several parameters.
I could not find a way how to start automatically Netbeans PHP debug session after the AJAX request sends parameters to the PHP file. I do not mind adding code to the JavaScript/Jquery code to make it happen.
Your help in this matter is highly appreciated. I tried various things and it did not work.
You can try to use this simple tool: https://www.jetbrains.com/phpstorm/marklets/
Then, when You will start a xdebug session, it should work with jquery as well.
You should pass XDEBUG_SESSION_START=netbeans-xdebug as parameter in your URL to PHP code. And this will start debug session in Netbeans IDE, as @Rafal Kozlowski said in his comment Netbeans XDEBUG session must be active in Netbeans. Hope this works for you