Top 10 PHP Debugging and Profiling Projects

PHP Debug Bar

2 4,158 8.8 PHP

Debug bar for PHP
xDebug

27 3,046 8.9 PHP

Xdebug — Step Debugger and Debugging Aid for PHP

Project mention: Maximizing Laravel's potential: Strategies for high-performance optimization | dev.to | 2024-02-27

Code profiling: Code profiling involves measuring the performance of your code by analyzing the execution time and memory usage of specific functions or methods. You can use a tool like Xdebug or Blackfire to perform code profiling on your Laravel application. To use Blackfire, ensure that your environment meets the following requirements:

WorkOS

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Kint

1 2,740 7.3 PHP

Kint - a powerful and modern PHP debugging tool.
XHProf

0 2,585 0.0 PHP

XHProf is a function-level hierarchical profiler for PHP and has a simple HTML based user interface.
PHPBench

3 1,839 8.0 PHP

PHP Benchmarking framework

Project mention: I've been loving Benchmarking lately, but the Framework does this one quirky thing with the first result of a set. Specifically, the first return is always unusually high. | /r/laravel | 2023-12-06

That was my first thought too. I used https://github.com/phpbench/phpbench in the past and it has a warmup feature where the code will run a couple times before the real benchmarking start

Tracy

2 1,725 7.0 PHP

😎 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)

Project mention: Unable to start or read suphle session | /r/PHPhelp | 2023-06-23

are you logging all errors/warnings and notices in php? and if so , are any coming up? maybe it would be worth adding tracy to your project to display issues? (https://tracy.nette.org)

Barbushin PHP Console

1 1,343 0.0 PHP

Handle PHP errors, dump variables, execute PHP code remotely in Google Chrome
InfluxDB

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PHP Console

0 530 0.0 PHP

PHP Debug Console (by Seldaek)
php

13 211 7.8 PHP

PHP client library for xrDebug (by xrdebug)
Dephpugger

0 197 0.0 PHP

Php Debugger to run in terminal to debug your code easily.

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).