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Xdebug
Developer(s) Derick Rethans
Initial release May 2, 2002
Stable release
Development status Active
Written in C
Available in English
Type Debugger
2.0.5 [1] (July 3, 2009) [ +/−
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License The Xdebug License
Website
www.xdebug.org [2]
Xdebug is a php extension which provides debugging and profiling capabilities. [3] It uses the DBGp debugging
protocol.
The debug information that Xdebug can provide includes the following:
• stack and function traces in error messages [4] 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 [5]
• code coverage analysis
• capabilities to debug your scripts interactively with a debugger front-end. [6]
Xdebug is also available via the PECL library. [7]
See also
• Debugger
• Dynamic program analysis
• Software performance analysis
• Optimization
• DBG (another debugger)