Visualize Backtrace 6.x-1.x-dev / 5.x-1.1 1.0

This is a developer's tool that parses XDebug trace files into *.dot GraphViz graphs order to help demystify the Drupal API & identify bottleneck Drupal functions.The module can also visualize a variety of specific backtraces and forwardtraces.InstallationUnpack in your modules folder (usually /sites/all/modules/) and enable under Administer > Site Building > Modules. Key features "Visualize Backtrace": - Hypertext links to the specific line number where the Drupal function was executed within the source code -- the PHP-highlighted code source pages are generated by this module. - Ability to plot all of the backtraces of a specific function call -- as well as an option to additionally plot the children functions in a "forwardtrace." - Ability to plot all of the bactraces and forwardtraces of the Drupal functions that were called from a specific module filename -- including the option of all contributed module functions. - Execution time for each function call -- as well as elapsed time of all children functions of a specific function. - Hypertext links to function descriptions at api.drupal.org to provide more context for each function. - Functions are labeled and color-coded according to which filename called them. - Looping sets of 1, 2 or 3 function pairs are filtered out and labeled as repeating. - Procedural Drupal hooks are labeled with the PHP function & location that called it. - Sequential ordering of all of the Drupal function calls for a page load from top-to-bottom and left-to-right. - All text on the flowchart is searchable to quickly find functions or to step through sequential function calls Requirements: - Drupal 5.x/6.x

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Platforms:	Windows, Mac, *nix, Mac OSX, Linux, PHP , BSD Solaris
Keyword:	Backtrace,  Backtrace Visualization,  Call,  Forwardtrace Visualization,  Function,  Function Call
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