From Mihai Corlan’s blog:
bq. As your projects grow in size and more people get involved you’ll find yourself fixing more and more bugs. When this happens, one of the best friends a developer has is the debugger. In this paper, I’ll talk about some of the workflows and tools you can use to debug Flex and PHP projects.
bq. If you want to try the steps outlined here for yourself, you’ll need Flash Builder 4, a PHP and MySQL server (MAMP or WAMP will do just fine), Eclipse PDT, and XDebug.
On the Affinity Bridge blog today there’s a great post looking at the use of Xdebug and KCachegrind to pinpoint bottlenecks and possible refectoring points in your code in a bit more visual way. They use an example from their own development – a script that took around twenty minutes to run.
If you are not familiar with Xdebug it is an extension that allows you to profile your application for various things like performance and memory usage. One of its more usefull features is the ability to profile your application to find out what method are taking the longest so you can clean up those bottlenecks in your application.
Today I’m going to talk to Derick Rethans. Derick Rethans provides solutions for Internet related problems. He has contributed in a number of ways to PHP, including the mcrypt, Date and input-filter extensions, bug fixes, additions and leading the QA team. He now works as project leader for the eZ components project for eZ systems A.S. In his spare time he likes to work on Xdebug, watch movies, travel and practise photography.
Welcome back to the fifth and last installment of our series of xdebug articles on Zend DevZone. xdebug is the swiss army knife extension for PHP developers. In addition to some nice features like beautifying var_dump() output, adding stack traces to error messages, xdebug supports tracing, profiling, and debugging, which were covered in the previous articles.
Welcome to the fourth installment in our five-part series of xdebug articles on the Zend DevZone. This week, we will explore debugging PHP code with xdebug, the swiss army knife for PHP developers.
In this article, we assume that you have xdebug installed on your system. If you haven’t, the first article of the series explains how to install and configure xdebug.
Welcome back to the third installment of this five-part series of xdebug articles on Zend DevZone. By now, you should at least have tried out xdebug on one of your development systems – if not, you should
really do so today. xdebug is a free and open source PHP extension that supports tracing, profiling, debugging, and creating code coverage statistics. I like to call it the PHP developer’s swiss army knife.
Welcome to the second installment of our five-part series of articles on xdebug, the PHP developer’s swiss army knife extension.
The installation of xdebug and its basic features were covered last week.
This week, we will explore the tracing feature of xdebug.
This article is the first installment of a five-part series of articles covering xdebug, a free and open source
swiss army knife tool for PHP developers. xdebug is a PHP extension created by Derick Rethans, one of the PHP core developers. This week, we will show you how to install xdebug and introduce you to some of the basic features.
In the subsequent parts of this article series, we will have a closer look at one of xdebug’s main features,
namely tracing, profiling, debugging, and code coverage.
Welcome back to the third edition of "a week in phpworld" – my subjective view at the highlights that happened last week in the phpworld. Covering everything from PHP 5.1.3 and PHP 6 through frameworks, conferences, databases and the rest of the PHP community.
