Comments on: PHP frontend for Xdebug profiling?

By: Mike Smullin

Mike Smullin — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 21:44:52 +0000

I’d love to see a KCachegrind or WinCachegrind plugin for Eclipse PDT. Combined with XDebug, that would allow me to debug and profile my PHP code all within the same IDE.

By: SitePoint Blogs » wxDebug

SitePoint Blogs » wxDebug — Mon, 15 May 2006 20:43:55 +0000

[...] In possession of wxPython in Action and with an itch to scratch, hacked together wxDebug (thanks to Python hosting)—a front end for viewing Xdebug profiling output, the UI design being inspired by (but by no means as good as) WinCacheGrind. A screenshot… [...]

By: mariuszn3

mariuszn3 — Sat, 22 Apr 2006 10:46:50 +0000

I’ve made myself php frontend but for Xdebug tracing. This gives times of execution but of course not the way the kcachegrind does. It’s just nice readable output of xdebug xt trace file – more usefull for debugging than profiling. It’s XHTML strict with some ajax functionality (to hide/show parts of trace)
I’m planing to publish it on my site but first I want to clear out some design/functionality issues that I’ve noticed in current version. If there’s interests in that, drop me a note maybe it will motivate me to push it forward :)

By: jayboots

jayboots — Fri, 21 Apr 2006 17:21:35 +0000

Thanks for the answer.

Think HTML (or XML / XSLT?) will make a better display in the end, plus it’s easier to customize.

If you said XUL I might be tempted to agree :)

By: lmpmbernardo

lmpmbernardo — Fri, 21 Apr 2006 15:22:42 +0000

I wrote a 10 line php script that does the same as the ct_annotate perl script. It’s not the same as having a kcachegrind view but I find it almost as useful.

By: Bob

Bob — Fri, 21 Apr 2006 08:24:28 +0000

I’m on OSX as well, and was recently surprised to find no solution for “grinding” cachegrind files natively. Even if the output was text on the command line – similar to the output of APD’s pprofp – I’d be in heaven. Graphs are for sucks anyways ;)

Please Harry – go forth and conquer.

By: svanpoeck

svanpoeck — Fri, 21 Apr 2006 08:19:05 +0000

Just looking for a quick answer –seems like a lot of experts are loose here ;) — does WinCacheGrind have any features Zend Studio Profiler has not ?

Just curious…

By: koto

koto — Fri, 21 Apr 2006 07:54:15 +0000

- Occasionally Wincachegrind “explodes” for no apparent reason. Not that I know my way around Delphi but without the source, it’s not promising.

Just for the record - the new release of wincachegrind 1.0.0.12 has source files included.

By: HarryF

HarryF — Fri, 21 Apr 2006 06:54:22 +0000

Why bother? kcachegrind and wincachegrind both do a good job and are very fast. I’m interested to know what brings you to wonder about a webified version. Are there particular features that are missing that you are interested in?

There isn’t really a good reason but a there are a bunch of bad reasons which, put together, start to make a good reason like;

- It’s a different tool on different platforms (and sounds like tough luck of the OS X people). Personally my desktop is about 50/50 Windows / Ubuntu these days (plus it’s nice to keep Ubuntu K-free) so I’d like to use the same thing on both

- Occasionally Wincachegrind “explodes” for no apparent reason. Not that I know my way around Delphi but without the source, it’s not promising.

- Think HTML (or XML / XSLT?) will make a better display in the end, plus it’s easier to customize

You’re just looking for an excuse to write it ;-P

…and there’s that ;)

By: Eric.Coleman

Eric.Coleman — Fri, 21 Apr 2006 00:30:52 +0000

Pain in the ass to get either of those working on OS X, unless im missing the point ;)

Then again, I can just fire up parallels and use wincachegrind.