Comments on: Useful in-browser development tools for PHP

By: kyberfabrikken

kyberfabrikken — Wed, 14 May 2008 22:01:52 +0000

@JM
I don’t use a Mac, so I’m afraid I just took someone else’s word for it. Makes sense that you can run kCacheGrind though, since there are plenty of other KDE apps, that works just fine. That doesn’t change the thing that kCacheGrind is a tad bit verbose for the casual user. I always preferred WinCacheGrind over kCacheGrind, for that.

Thanks for the pointer to PHP_Debug.

@dylanmcd
I hadn’t seen dbug before; I really like the visual rendering of data. Definitely some inspiration there.

@Insomn3ak
Which version of Firebug are you using it with? If I install FirePHP, Firebug stops working.

By: Insomn3ak

Insomn3ak — Wed, 14 May 2008 19:55:17 +0000

It looks like the developer of FirePHP released the updated version on Monday that works with FF3.

By: JM

JM — Wed, 14 May 2008 12:28:35 +0000

I'm running KCachegrind on Mac OS X 10.5 without any problems. Where did you get the information that it somehow depends on the Linux kernel? Yet another Tool is PHP_Debug (PEAR).

By: dylanmcd

dylanmcd — Tue, 13 May 2008 16:15:23 +0000

This entry coincided with me searching for a good debug exception handler (which led to me finding PrettyBlueScreen).

In the past for pretty debugging I’ve used DBug from http://dbug.ospinto.com, and before that the PEAR Var_Dump package with custom styles. I’m looking forward to trying out Krumo, although I’m a bit put off by the ini configuration and external css files (debug packages should be as self contained as possible).

Thanks for posting, Troels.