jfhovinne's sandbox: Debug Bar

Debugging in Drupal has never been easier

Debug Bar displays a debug bar in the browser with information from PHP using PHP Debug Bar.
No more var_dump() in your code!

Requirements

• Composer (in order to locally install PHP Debug Bar)

Installation

• Download the module as usual - don't enable it yet
• cd to the module directory
• Install PHP Debug Bar: $ php composer.phar install
• Enable the module

The Debug Bar should now appear in the bottom area of the website.

Notice

Since this is still a sandbox project, download it with Git

$ git clone --branch master http://git.drupal.org/sandbox/jfhovinne/2132181.git debug_bar

Usage

Message log

In order to inspect a variable, log a message, etc, use debug_bar_add_message in your code.

global $user;
debug_bar_add_message($user);

Get the debug bar instance and display exceptions

$debugbar = debug_bar_get_instance();
try {
  throw new Exception('foobar');
} catch (Exception $e) {
  $debugbar['exceptions']->addException($e);
}

More info

PHP Debug Bar

See PHP Debug Bar documentation for available features.

Composer installation

This works on a Debian Wheezy box (with Curl and PHP CLI installed), as a regular user:

$ cd
$ mkdir bin; cd bin
$ curl -sS https://getcomposer.org/installer | php
$ alias composer='php ~/bin/composer.phar'

The last line above will allow you to execute composer like this:

$ composer install

To make it permanent, add this line to your .bash_aliases file.

On a Debian Squeeze box with Suhosin installed, you will probably need to add 'phar' to the whitelist:

$ alias composer='php -d suhosin.executor.include.whitelist=phar ~/bin/composer.phar'