PhpStorm: Tools - Analyze Xdebug Profiler Snapshot; Limitations. Xdebug profiling will log memory usage by PHP, not extensions. It will, however, keep track of the time spent in a function, even if it involved extensions (native code). This keeps it useful for looking. XDebug offers the configuration directive 'xdebug.profilerenabletrigger' that allows to activate profiling by passing the GET or POST parameter 'XDEBUGPROFILE' when calling a script via HTTP. This is handy if you don't want profiling for ALL of your scripts but only for a few special cases without always changing your PHP configuration.
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Xdebug is a great tool and many of you use it for interactive debugging. But Xdebug is not just a debugger, it also provides many other features such as profiling or code coverage
In this video I show you how to install Xdebug on Ubuntu and configure it to work with PhpStorm's Xdebug tools. NEVER type vardump again!For Magento 2 devel. Profiling with Xdebug—PhpStorm, Enable the Xdebug profiler Open the active php. Ini file in the editor: In the Settings/Preferences dialog Ctrl+Alt+S, click PHP under Languages PhpStorm 2020.3: PHP 8, PHPStan and Psalm, Xdebug 3, Tailwind CSS, and Collaborative Development Roman Pronskiy December 3, 2020 PhpStorm 2020.3 is now. Xdebug is a PHP extension which provides debugging, profiling, code coverage, stack traces and many other capabilities. In this succinct tutorial, I will show us how to set up Xdebug that ships with XAMPP in PhpStorm. See the steps below. Open up php.ini.
Integration with Xdebug Profiler is one of the most voted feature in the PhpStorm issue tracker, so we are happy to announce that its initial support is already implemented in PhpStorm 3.0 EAP!
To be more specific – PhpStorm provides visual representation of profiling data generated by Xdebug. In order to open a profiler snapshot, invoke the ‘Analyze Xdebug profiler snapshot’ action and select the path to the snapshot. Note that you can select several snapshots at a time and collect the aggregated profiling information.
'Analyze Xdebug profiler snapshot' action in 'Tools' menu
By now we have implemented the following data views:
- ‘Execution Statistics’ – displays summary information about execution metrics of every called function.
- ‘Call Tree’ – displays the execution paths of the called functions.
'Call Tree' view
- ‘Callees’ – same as ‘Call Tree’ but with the selected function as the root.
- ‘Callers’ – all the paths that can result in calling the selected function.
To learn how to configure the Xdebug extension so profiling is enabled follow official documentation at http://xdebug.org/docs/profiler#starting. You can use our Xdebug bookmarklets generator to toggle profiling directly from browser toolbar.
Developing integration with the profiler is still in progress, so we are looking forward for your feedback!
Develop with pleasure!
Profiling is about measuring the performance of PHP code, at least when we are talking about Drupal and Xdebug. You might need to profile your site or app if you work at a firm where performance is highly scrutinized, or if you are having problems getting a migration to complete. Whatever the reason, if you have been tasked with analyzing the performance of your Drupal codebase, profiling is one great way of doing so. Note that Xdebug’s profiler does not track memory usage. If you want to know more about memory performance tracking you should check out Xdebug’s execution trace features.
Alright then lets get started!
Whoa there cowboy! First you need to know that the act of profiling your code is itself taking resources to accomplish. The more work your code does, the more information that the profiler stores; file sizes for these logs can get very big very quickly. You have been warned. To get going with profiling Drupal in PHPStorm and Xdebug you need:
- PHP with the Xdebug extension
- A website running on Drupal.
To setup your environment, edit your php.ini file and add the following lines:
Phpstorm Xdebug Docker Cli
Depending on what you are testing and how, you may want to adjust the settings for your site. For instance, if you are using Drush to run a migration, you can’t start the profiler on-demand, and that affects the profiler_trigger setting. For my dev site I used the php.ini config you see above and simply added a URL parameter “XDEBUG_PROFILE=on” to my site’s url; this starts Xdebug profiling from the browser. To give you an idea of what is possible, lets profile the work required to view a simple Drupal node. To profile the node view I visited http://profiler.loc/node/48581?XDEBUG_PROFILE=on in my browser. I didn't see any flashing lights or hear bells and whistles, but I should have a binary file that PHPStorm can inspect, located in the path I setup in my php.ini profiler_output_dir directive.