The log that you linked to (https://gist.github.com/nathanielks/fe2ff0422e538c64134b3bb36ca63616#file-xdebug-log-L37) has:

ZWNobyAndGVzdCc=

which is:

$ bin/base64.sh ZWNobyAndGVzdCc=
echo 'test'

It doesn't have the trailing ;, which is necessary - even with an eval in PHP itself:

$ php
<?php
eval("echo 'test'");
^D
Parse error: syntax error, unexpected end of file, expecting ',' or ';' in Standard input code(2) : eval()'d code on line 1

$ php
<?php
eval("echo 'test';");
^D
test

You're either not adding the ; yourself, or your IDE strips it.

Hey Derick,

Thanks for the quick response! I tried both with and without a trailing semi-colon, and both had errors.

I did some reading and further testing based on people experiencing the issue and I've found this is due to user error (I think). VSCode updated today and I'm no longer seeing the syntax error, it just says "error evaluating code." It sounds like there may have been a bug in VSCode and not the debugging extension.

In my testing, I looked at the xdebug log to see what VSCode was sending vs what PHPStorm was sending and I found that PHPStorm automatically wraps function calls and other operations in an eval statement, where as the VSCode extension does not.

All that said, I don't think an issue exists. Thanks for all your hard work and I appreciate your time!

OK. Good to know. I'll close this ticket then!