The interactive PHP debugger

phpdbg is an interactive debugger for PHP.

Implemented as a SAPI module, phpdbg can excerpt complete control over the environment without impacting the functionality or performance of your code.

phpdbg aims to be a lightweight, easy to use debugging platform for PHP5.5+

Features

• step through debugging
• break at function entry or file:line
• showing debug backtraces
• easy manipulation of the environment with built-in eval()
• sapi agnositicism, easy integration

Planned

• mocking server environments/requests
• userland script-ability
• improve everything

Installation

To install phpdbg, you must compile the source against your PHP installation sources, and enable the SAPI with the configure command.

cd /usr/src/php-src/sapi
git clone https://github.com/krakjoe/phpdbg
cd ../
./buildconf --force
./config.nice
make -j8
make install-phpdbg

Command Line Options

The following switches are implemented (just like cli SAPI):

• -n ignore php ini
• -c search for php ini in path
• -z load zend extension
• -d define php ini entry

Screeny