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Xdebug

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Developer(s)
  
Derick Rethans

Written in
  
C

Development status
  
Active

Available in
  
English

Xdebug

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
  • protection for infinite recursions
  • 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.

    References

    Xdebug Wikipedia