Kint
Kint - a powerful and modern PHP debugging tool. (by kint-php)
xDebug
Xdebug — Step Debugger and Debugging Aid for PHP (by xdebug)
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| Kint | xDebug | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 23 | |
| 2,714 | 2,870 | |
| 0.1% | 0.5% | |
| 4.5 | 8.9 | |
| 2 months ago | 6 days ago | |
| PHP | PHP | |
| MIT License | GNU General Public License v3.0 or later |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
Kint
Posts with mentions or reviews of Kint.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects.
We haven't tracked posts mentioning Kint yet.
Tracking mentions began in Dec 2020.
xDebug
Posts with mentions or reviews of xDebug.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-12-25.
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Moving from Java to PHP Project
I've gotten a lot of mileage out of Psalm, a static analysis tool that can help you identify potential bugs and things that might not be considered best practice, and XDebug, a debugging and profiling extension for PHP.
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Your experience switching from vanilla PHP spaghetti/OOP to Symfony?
Step debugger
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How to Use a Debugger in PHP
XDebug
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How to step debug PHP code with Xdebug and PhpStorm on a DDEV setup
Xdebug, per the official website, “is an extension for PHP, and provides a range of features to improve the PHP development experience”.
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How can I see a variable in the browser?
or var-dump() but what you probably want is a step debugger like XDebug.
There's FirePHP (I've never used it) but the most straightforward way to inspect variables is Xdebug (supported by PhpStorm, Visual Studio Code and NetBeans).
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Modern tools for PHP developers
Before the introduction of debuggers like XDebug and ZendDebugger, developers were forced to spend excessive time understanding the root cause of an application’s misbehavior.
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Weekly "ask anything" thread
Using Xdebug's profiling features. This takes some time to learn and setting up to your environment.
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How to setup an automated testing pipeline with Codecov and GitHub Actions.
Setup PHP with XDebug: This section installs PHP with XDebug, which is a PHP extension that is critical to generating the coverage report file labeled "coverage.xml". For projects written in other programming languages, this section of the CI pipeline is usually where necessary setup for running the unit tests is done.
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Debugging Drupal 9 with Xdebug and (VSCode || PHPStorm)
In the old days, debugging Drupal websites consisted of printing out an array variable and inspect its values within. However, today with a more complex Drupal codebase, those days are gone and ... behold Xdebug
What are some alternatives?
When comparing Kint and xDebug you can also consider the following projects:
PHPDBG
XHProf - XHProf is a function-level hierarchical profiler for PHP and has a simple HTML based user interface.
PHP Debug Bar - Debug bar for PHP
Tracy - 😎 Tracy: the addictive tool to ease debugging PHP code for cool developers. Friendly design, logging, profiler, advanced features like debugging AJAX calls or CLI support. You will love it.
PHPBench - PHP Benchmarking framework
Barbushin PHP Console - Handle PHP errors, dump variables, execute PHP code remotely in Google Chrome
APM - PHP APM (Alternative PHP Monitor)
Dephpugger - Php Debugger to run in terminal to debug your code easily.
PHP Console - PHP Debug Console