Xdebug

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Developer(s) Derick Rethans Written in C		Development status Active Available in English

Initial release May 2, 2002 (2002-05-02) Stable release 2.5.0 (December 4, 2016; 4 months ago (2016-12-04)) [±]

Xdebug is a PHP extension which provides debugging and profiling capabilities. It uses the DBGp debugging protocol.

The debug information that Xdebug can provide includes the following:

stack and function traces in error messages with:

full parameter display for user defined functions

function name, file name and line indications

support for member functions

memory allocation

Xdebug also provides:

profiling information for PHP scripts

code coverage analysis

capabilities to debug your scripts interactively with a debugger front-end.

Xdebug is also available via the PECL.

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