xdebug

Kurt Payne has a new post to his blog showing how to use register_tick_function with a callback to help benchmark and profile your application to find its pain spots.

In a recent post from Learncomputer.com, there's a comparison of two PHP profilers - the PHP Quick Profiler and the one included in Xdebug.

Xdebug's Code Coverage speedup

London, UK Friday, September 23rd 2011, 09:23 BST

Besides a debugging and development aid, Xdebug also implements the back-end code to provide code coverage information for use with PHPUnit.

As Derick Rethans notes in his latest post, the Xdebug project is now on github and can be found under his account.

Xdebug on github

London, UK Wednesday, June 22nd 2011, 21:47 BST

I've just opened my Xdebug repository on github.

Importing my old SVN repository was a bit of a task.

Every now and then you run into this weird situation in your code, where something that was supposed to zig is now zagging and it makes no sense whatsoever.

For me this ends up happening in my unit tests since i’m not running everything in the browser everytime and since my tests usually run more scenarios then a regular browser run, that’s where the weird stuff happens.

So your obvious way out is to add a few var_dumps into the code and try to understand what is happening, if you are doing that: STOP!

Eric Hogue has written up a new post about a few different technologies you can use to profile your PHP applications quickly and easily.

Karsten Dambekalns has a new post to his blog today about how he was able to get the PHP IDE PHPStorm and XDebug working together to do some debugging in his application.

Harrie Verver has a new post to his blog today looking at some benchmarking numbers he's run on the performance difference Xdebug (the popular PHP debugger) would have on a production system.

Tony Lukasavage has a new post to his blog about debugging your PHP applications with IntelliJ and XDebug on a WAMP install.