Dave,
I figured it out from the error message I got from php -v. The issue
was resloved by commenting out the line:
extension=php_xdebug.dll in php.ini.
Turns out the xdebug extension must be loaded as a zend extension, which
was already being done in the "XDebug" section of php.ini:
zend_extension_ts="G:\xampp\php\ext\php_xdebug.dll"
I am not sure how these lines got into my php.ini's, I believe they came
with XAMPP in the php.ini files found in the PHP and Apache folders. I
probably uncommented them as I wanted the XDebug extension.
Thanks for you help!
-Dave Connerth