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, file:line or address
showing debug backtraces
easy manipulation of the environment with built-in eval()
userland API
sapi agnositicism, easy integration

Planned

mocking server environments/requests
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

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