Xdebug, KCacheGrind and Webgrindwith WampServer

Michał SzkodzińskiIT Manager

Mediovski Technology11 July 2010Warsaw, Poland

Summary

Summary

This presentation showshow to use KCacheGrind and Webgrind

with Xdebug PHP extension works on WampServer.

You need WampServer, base knowledge about profiling PHP applications,internet connection and 15 minutes of free time.

You can find all usefull web addresses on the last slide.

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Agenda

1. Xdebug extension for PHP

2. KCacheGrind for Windows

3. Webgrind

4. Connect KCacheGrind and Webgrind with WampServer

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1. Install Xdebug

1. Download Xdebug binaries for Windows from:http://www.xdebug.org/download.php

Xdebug

2. Save dll file to your PHP extensions directory, for exampleC:\wamp\bin\php\php5.3.1\ext

3. Rename dll file to php_xdebug.dll

Choose file for your PHP and Windows version - I get '5.3 VC6 (32 bit)'

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extension=php_xdebug.dll

zend_extension = c:\wamp\bin\php\php5.3.1\ext\php_xdebug.dllxdebug.remote_enable=1xdebug.remote_host="127.0.0.1"xdebug.remote_port=9000xdebug.remote_handler="dbgp"xdebug.remote_mode=reqxdebug.profiler_enable=1xdebug.profiler_output_dir="c:/wamp/tmp/"xdebug.collect_params=Onxdebug.show_local_vars=On

4. Add new line in Your php.ini file:

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Check if paths are correct for your WampServer configuration.

2. Install KCacheGrind

1. Download and run The KDE on Windows installerfrom The KDE on Windows Project website

http://www.winkde.org/pub/kde/ports/win32/installer/kdewin-installer-gui-latest.exe

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2. Type path to installation directory, for example C:\Program Files\KDE

3. Choose kcachegrind from list of packages

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4. You can find KCacheGrind in KDE bin directory,for example C:\Program Files\kde\bin

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3. Install Webgrind

1. Download zip archive from http://code.google.com/p/webgrind/downloads/list

2. Extract to your root www directory, for exampleC:\wamp\www\webgrind

3. You can find it on http://localhost/webgrind

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4. Connect with WampServer

2. Add three new lines in [Menu.Left] section:

Type: item; Caption: "KCacheGrind"; Action: run; FileName:"C:\Program Files\kde\bin\kcachegrind.exe"; Parameters: ""; Glyph: 5

Type: item; Caption: "Webgrind"; Action: run; FileName: "${c_navigator}";Parameters: "http://localhost/webgrind/"; Glyph: 5

Type: separator; Caption: ""

1. Edit your WampServer template file C:\wamp\wampmanager.tpl

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Check if file names are correct.

3. Restart WampServer

4. Now You can launch KCacheGrind and Webgrind from WampServer menu

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5. Use it to improve performance of Your PHP based application

5. Use new features

KCacheGrind 18/21

Choose cachegrind file See calers and callee mapSwitch to relative view

Search and group function

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Choose cachegrind file Sort by type of function, count or cost

Open file

See calls and called from

Web addresses

Usefull web addresses:

• WampServer– http://www.wampserver.com/en – homepage– http://www.wampserver.com/dl.php – download

• Xdebug– http://www.xdebug.org – product homepage– http://www.xdebug.org/download.php – download

• KCacheGrind– http://kcachegrind.sourceforge.net/html/Home.html – product homepage

• The KDE on Windows Project– http://windows.kde.org – project homepage– http://www.winkde.org/pub/kde/ports/win32/installer/kdewin-installer-gui-latest.exe – installer

• Webgrind– http://code.google.com/p/webgrind – project homepage– http://code.google.com/p/webgrind/downloads/detail?name=webgrind-release-1.0.zip – download

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