PHP

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Install PHP

Common needed ports for php are;

$ sudo prt-get depinst php \
php-exif \
php-fpm \
php-ftp \
php-gd \
php-gettext \
php-mariadb \
php-mbstring \
php-pdo-mariadb \
php-pdo-pgsql \
php-postgresql \
php-sockets \
php-sqlite3 \
php-zip \
xdebug \
kcachegrind

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Development

Setup php ini in development mode;

$ sudo cp /etc/php/php.ini-development /etc/php/php.ini

$ php --ini
Configuration File (php.ini) Path: /etc/php
Loaded Configuration File:         /etc/php/php.ini
Scan for additional .ini files in: /etc/php/conf.d
Additional .ini files parsed:      /etc/php/conf.d/exif.ini,
/etc/php/conf.d/extensions.ini,
/etc/php/conf.d/gd.ini,
/etc/php/conf.d/mysql.ini,
/etc/php/conf.d/pdo_pgsql.ini,
/etc/php/conf.d/pgsql.ini,
/etc/php/conf.d/xdebug.ini

To enable xdebug edit /etc/php/conf.d/xdebug.ini to

[xdebug]
xdebug.remote_enable=1
xdebug.remote_connect_back=1
xdebug.remote_port=9000
xdebug.remote_handler=dbgp
xdebug.remote_mode=req
xdebug.remote_autostart=true

xdebug.profiler_enable=false
xdebug.profiler_enable_trigger=true
xdebug.profiler_enable_trigger_value=P76NMis5Itj9_j3Xawd7DX1i1uS2BmC7D8HsJls-rFA
xdebug.profiler_output_dir=/tmp
xdebug.profiler_output_name=phpprofile.%t-%u.%p-%H.%R.%cachegrind

By default profiler is off and is turned on using xdebug.profiler_enable_trigger_value to not overload the system profiling all requests. Create a personalized token for the trigger;

dd if=/dev/urandom bs=8 count=4 status=none | base64 | tr -d '=' | tr '+/' '-_'

Output files are saved on xdebug.profiler_output_dir and must be writable by user php is running as. Output file names can be changed using profiler_output_name.

To start profiling add XDEBUG_PROFILE with trigger value to GET or POST. Example;

$ w3m http://localhost/shop/?XDEBUG_PROFILE=P76NMis5Itj9_j3Xawd7DX1i1uS2BmC7D8HsJls-rFA

Files created can be open and viewed with kcachegrind.