PHP Execution Log

View or capture PHP code executed?

[JAB Creations]

I'm curious if there is a way to somehow capture the PHP code executed when loading a page locally on my system? If so I'd like to be able to compare it to different builds for performance comparisons.

Perhaps a log output similar to this...

file1.php 
include('file2.php'); 
 file2.php 
 echo 'Hi Mom!'; 
file1.php 
echo 'second line'; 
echo 'third line executed here'; 
echo 'etc';

- John

[JAB Creations]

Well I did a bit of digging and came across Xdebug Profiler. In conjunction with WinCacheGrind I was able to find a single line of code that was adding 40 milliseconds of wait to page loads and fixed it. :)

- John

[timster]

Sounds like you are asking for a PHP tracing tool. There is not a built-in trace in PHP, but several extensions exist to accomplish this.

A search for "php tracing" will turn up extensions you could use, including Zend's xdebug and DTrace.

Here's a good intro showing what DTrace can do:

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