How to trace code execution in PHP?

Question

I would like to see a log of THE WHOLE code execution of PHP script(s). Something like this: http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Ruby_Programming/Standard_Library/Tracer (for lack of better example; no flame please).

Is there some way how to obtain the log in PHP?

Note: I know I can use a debugger but that's not the same.

Answer 1

Xdebug is definitely what you want, but with something like callgrind from the valgrind suite as well.

Zend blog post here should give you some pointers: http://devzone.zend.com/1139/profiling-php-applications-with-xdebug/

Answer 2

phptrace is an awesome tool to trace php code executions

Answer 3

In any function you can see the whole backtrace by using debug_backtrace(...)

Or you can use Xdebug profiler to profile your PHP scripts.

Answer 4

Have a look at Kint.

It's var_dump() and debug_backtrace() on steroids. Easy to use, but powerful and customizable. An essential addition to your development toolbox.

it also has platform specific extensions here

Answer 5

You can use a PHP extension called : XHProf, developed by Facebook.

It is capable of reporting function-level call counts and inclusive and exclusive wall time, CPU time and memory usage.

https://github.com/facebook/xhprof