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Top 12 PHP Debugging and Profiling Projects
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Project mention: Top 16 Must-Have Resources for Advanced PHP Backend Development (Laravel & Symfony) | dev.to | 2025-06-21
Xdebug: A powerful debugging and profiling tool for PHP, Xdebug allows you to step through your code line by line, inspect variables at runtime, and analyze performance bottlenecks. It's crucial for understanding how your application behaves and for efficiently troubleshooting issues. Install and Use Xdebug
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XHProf
XHProf is a function-level hierarchical profiler for PHP and has a simple HTML based user interface.
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Project mention: Static vs Non-Static Closures in PHP – A Surprising Benchmark | dev.to | 2025-07-18
I ran this with and without the static keyword using PHP 8.4 and measured the results with PHPBench. 📊 Here’s what I got:
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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. (by nette)
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ddless-engine
PHP debug engine that works without extensions — AST instrumentation + file-based IPC. Powers DDLess.
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NOTE:
The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars.
The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or
since we started tracking (Dec 2020).
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Index
What are some of the best open-source Debugging and Profiling projects in PHP? This list will help you:
| # | Project | Stars |
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| 1 | PHP Debug Bar | 4,387 |
| 2 | xDebug | 3,399 |
| 3 | Kint | 2,819 |
| 4 | XHProf | 2,603 |
| 5 | PHPBench | 2,006 |
| 6 | Tracy | 1,826 |
| 7 | Barbushin PHP Console | 1,336 |
| 8 | PHP Console | 523 |
| 9 | php | 238 |
| 10 | Dephpugger | 204 |
| 11 | ddless-engine | 29 |
| 12 | bcons-php-connector | 0 |
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